Thursday, August 6, 2020

No, AOC Did Not Call for Businesses to Stay Closed to Hurt Trump

A Facebook rumor making the rounds alleges that Brooklyn Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, and then deleted, a post calling for governors to maintain restrictions on businesses until after the election so that President Donald Trump would not get reelected.

Snopes points out that this is a fabrication. They checked out databases that capture and preserve deleted tweets. None of them have such a tweet from the Congresswoman. Anybody can compose fake tweets and make it look like some disliked politician said it.

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