{"id":1724053,"date":"2022-11-03T20:49:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724053"},"modified":"2022-11-03T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:50:07","slug":"aoc-doubles-down-on-promoting-elon-musk-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-doubles-down-on-promoting-elon-musk-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Doubles Down On Promoting Elon Musk Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-doubles-down-on-promoting-elon-musk-conspiracy-theories%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724053&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reader-unique-id=\"2\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY) doubled down on an unfounded conspiracy theory Thursday afternoon after Twitter CEO Elon Musk mocked her complaints about having to pay $8 per month for premium services on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez claimed in a tweet Wednesday night that her notifications on Twitter stopped working after Musk responded to her criticisms as she implied, without evidence, that Musk personally intervened to mess with her account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso my Twitter mentions\/notifications conveniently aren\u2019t working tonight, so I was informed via text that I seem to have gotten under a certain billionaire\u2019s skin,\u201d she claimed. \u201cJust a reminder that money will never buy your way out of insecurity, folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez doubled down on those claims in a video she posted to Instagram, saying, \u201cI was at a community event in the Bronx in Coop city, and when I get home, I see a text from my team saying, \u2018Hey let me know if you need any help with this Elon stuff.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I was like \u2018What?\u2019 So I pulled my Twitter app, and it\u2019s like, gone. Like, when you pull up your mentions and stuff, it\u2019s just like literally, it\u2019s a blank screen,\u201d she continued. \u201cTotally gone. And I was like, \u2018Hmm, that\u2019s weird.\u2019 So, it turns out we got under a certain little billionaire\u2019s skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> accuses <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> of censoring her on twitter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yGEAckNEK5\">pic.twitter.com\/yGEAckNEK5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Gage (@johnrobertgage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnrobertgage\/status\/1588204955613044736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out a screenshot of what she claims she saw on her phone last night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYo @elonmusk while I have your attention, why should people pay $8 just for their app to get bricked when they say something you don\u2019t like?\u201d she claimed. \u201cThis is what my app has looked like ever since my tweet upset you yesterday. What\u2019s good? Doesn\u2019t seem very free speechy to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many Twitter users who use the Twitter app run into the screen that Ocasio-Cortez posted from time-to-time due to being in an area with poor internet service. There is zero evidence suggesting anything nefarious happened.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> while I have your attention, why should people pay $8 just for their app to get bricked when they say something you don\u2019t like? <\/p>\n<p>This is what my app has looked like ever since my tweet upset you yesterday. What\u2019s good? Doesn\u2019t seem very free speechy to me \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e3hcZ7T9up\">pic.twitter.com\/e3hcZ7T9up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1588174959817658368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AOC\u2019s initial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ocasio-cortez-floats-conspiracy-theory-after-elon-musk-mocks-her\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaint<\/a> earlier this week came after Musk said that he would charge users $8 per month for a variety of features, which has sparked a lot of backlash from across the political spectrum for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that \u2018free speech\u2019 is actually a $8\/mo subscription plan,\u201d AOC tweeted at the start of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded, \u201cYour feedback is appreciated, now pay $8.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk also responded with a screenshot of a hoodie that Ocasio-Cortez sells online for $58.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doubled down on an unfounded conspiracy theory Thursday afternoon after Twitter CEO Elon Musk mocked her complaints about having to pay $8 per month for premium services on the platform. Ocasio-Cortez claimed in a tweet Wednesday night that her notifications on Twitter stopped working after Musk responded to her criticisms as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1724056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}