- AOC threatened on Tuesday to leave Twitter over a parody account
- She said she was ‘assessing’ what to do after Elon Musk replied to a tweet from the parody account
- The message came after the parody account tweeted that she has a crush on Elon Musk, which he replied to with a fire emoji
Squad member AOC has threatened to leave Twitter over a parody account.
The woke New York Congresswoman tweeted on Tuesday that she may abandon her 13.4million followers after Elon Musk promoted a ‘sick’ account impersonating her.
She said she was ‘assessing’ what to do after the billionaire replied to a tweet from the parody account, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody).
‘FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral,’ AOC tweeted. ‘The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility.’
She claimed that the account was ‘releasing false policy statements,’ after previously tweeting about her boyfriend’s farts and her ideas to tackle climate change.
‘I am assessing with my team how to move forward,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.
‘In the meantime, be careful of what you see,’ she warned her followers.
Her message came after Musk replied to a tweet from the parody account, which wrote: ‘This might be the wine talking but I’ve got a crush on @ElonMusk.’
The mogul replied with a fire emoji.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 29, 2023
FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral. The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility.
It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread.
I am assessing with my team how to move forward. In the meantime, be careful of what you see.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 30, 2023
The parody account had tweeted out similar sentiments about Musk in the past, including one on Tuesday saying ‘[Elon Musk] my boyfriend is at Target and my DMs are open. You know what to do.’
It also wrote that ‘Every time my boyfriend farts — I make him plant a tree to offset his carbon emissions,’ and suggested ‘the real reason MAGA extremists are so infuriated with me… I’m young, gorgeous, successful and a millionaire.’
On Monday, the account also told its 170,900 followers to ‘take a moment on this Memorial Day to remember all the citizens that lost their lives trying to come through our southern border.’
And following AOC’s announcement on Tuesday, it posted a series of tweets, including one saying: ‘After brainstorming with my staff — I’m going to push Congress to make it illegal to joke, laugh or make fun of me.
‘Parody should be illegal,’ it wrote.
‘FYI… I have no problem with parody accounts,’ the parody account added later, ‘just the ones that make fun of me.’
https://twitter.com/AOCpress/status/1663615640563855360?s=20
https://twitter.com/AOCpress/status/1662948135247794178?s=20
It is completely believable that AOC might say that since it seems to match with her socialist position of wanting to spend us into oblivion. If she’s worried that people will mistake a parody account for her, what does that say about her ideas? And what does that say about her followers if they would fall for it? Maybe she should think about that a little bit.
AOC is “assessing with my team how to move forward.” Seriously? You think you’re going to be able to stop a parody account, that’s completely within the terms of service of Twitter and marked parody? Or does she think she’s just going to scare the account with that remark? That comment just makes her look silly and like she can’t take a joke.
Ocasio-Cortez’s threat of leaving Twitter is just the latest in a string of attacks on Musk since he took over the social media platform last year.
When Musk announced in November that those who want to retain their blue verification marks would have to pay $8, AOC mocked the move on the social media platform.
‘LMAO at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that “free speech” is actually an $8/mo subscription plan,’ she wrote at the time, to which Musk replied: ‘Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8.’
Then when the Tesla founder announced last month that Twitter would remove the blue verification marks for legacy accounts that do not pay for Twitter Blue, AOC claimed that he was paving the way ‘for major potential harm.’
She also previously claimed that Musk had meddled with her account when she could not see notifications from verified accounts.
The congresswoman suggested the issue started following a public argument.
‘Yo @ElonMusk while I have your attention, why should people pay $8 just for their app to get bricked when they say something you don’t like?’ she tweeted earlier this year.
Musk replied to the tweet joking, ‘What can I say? It was a naked abuse of power.’
And in December, AOC condemned Musk after he suspended the accounts of half a dozen journalists who reported on him and his takeover of Twitter.
‘I get feeling unsafe, but descending into [an] abuse of power and erratically banning journalists only increases the intensity around you,’ she wrote.
‘As someone who has been subject to real and dangerous plots, I do get it. I didn’t have security and have experienced many scary incidents. In fact, many of the right-wing outlets you now elevate published photos of my home, car, etc.
‘At a certain point, you gotta disconnect. Maybe try putting down your phone,’ she suggested.
‘You first, lol,’ Musk replied at the time.
He has yet to comment publicly on AOC’s threat of leaving the platform, which she uses daily.
