Topics: Elon Musk, Twitter, Social Media, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit back at billionaire Elon Musk after he accused her of flirting with him on Twitter.
AOC sent out a tweet on Friday, 29 April, that took aim at the billionaire.
She tweeted: “Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special.”
Loads of people thought she was talking about Elon Musk, and so did he. The tech billionaire took it as a dig against him, so he mocked the Congresswoman.
He replied: “Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy.”
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Yikes.
Funnily enough, it turns out AOC's tweet was not actually aimed at the Tesla CEO, with Musk potentially outing himself as a billionaire with an ego problem himself.
The Democratic Representative replied to Musk’s facetious tweet, saying: “I was talking about Zuckerberg, but ok.”
The Bronx and Queens representative deleted the tweet a minute later, however, responded to a tweet that caught the whole ordeal.
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She said: “Like I said, ego problems.”
Earlier that day, Ocasio-Cortez had taken exception to a Musk tweet that claimed that the Democratic Party was straying from their initial ideologies, and the ‘far-left’ had taken over.
She tweeted: “‘The extreme left is taking over’ WHERE. In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion.
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“Can anyone name a ‘far left’ policy that extreme implemented anywhere? We can’t even get our party to import cheaper RXs from Canada.”
Conservatives have seemingly benefited from Musk buying Twitter, with personalities such as Donald Trump Jr, Tucker Carlson, and Ron DeSantis seeing their follower count significantly grow.
Meanwhile, the likes of Bernie Sanders, Michell Obama, and AOC herself have seen their follower count drop.
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After his $44 billion ($AUD 61.6billion, £33.3 billion) purchase of Twitter, Musk announced that he planned to ‘increase trust’ and would work on ‘defeating the spam bots’.
However, according to TIME Magazine 48 percent of Musk's 89.8 million followers are bots or fake accounts.
Twitter auditing tool SparkToro explains that these accounts are 'unreachable' and you 'will not see the account’s tweets (either because they’re spam, bots, propaganda, etc. or because they’re no longer active on Twitter).'
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