Ocasio Cortez Hacked
A certain laptop was left behind at a Delaware repair shop this fall. You may have heard about it, as it belonged to one Hunter Biden. The New York Post even saw fit to report about it. Once the story was finally published, Facebook did everything in its power to keep it buried. Twitter also tried their best to keep the story under wraps.
Most will notice that this is not the same philosophy that was taken when it comes to the world of Donald Trump and his associates. The explanation that was provided for the decision was not all that satisfactory. Twitter claims that its hacked materials clause was violated, which is not an explanation that holds water for most of us.
The New York Post story could not be shared among its users, who are usually the first to sit at the head of the outrage table. Online outrage is more profitable, as anyone who has seen what the blue check marks on there are spewing these days. It seems like all you need to do is go viral for dunking on Trump once and the book deal arrives the next day.
Twitter definitely wants to preserve their leftist ecosystem and that’s why stories that would upset people are consistently buried. We all saw what happened when Tucker Carlson tried to get to the bottom of what was going on. Twitter had a convenient outage that gave them just enough time to get the story buried.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Wichita. Doxxed and hacked by attackers who didn't like how she responded to haters of the female 'Ghostbusters' reboot, the implication to other women of color was. Ocasio-Cortez has often been the subject of online misinformation. This particular Facebook post, shared on the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, claims the New York congresswoman made a comment downplaying the severity of attacks, claiming she said, “9/11 wasn’t that big of a deal.”. ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez said she considered quitting politics and has pushed back on House Democrats who criticized progressives for costing the party important seats. The freshman congresswoman a. Texas rep demands Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apologize for tweets to Ted Cruz Ted Cruz encounters his first burned bridge of 2021 It took 60 seconds to break down environmental racism in Harris County. While the motivation behind the attack appears to be financial, many of the hacked accounts also belonged to prominent Democrats - including the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former.
Commentary on or discussion about hacked materials, such as articles that cover them but do not include or link to the materials themselves, aren’t a violation of this policy. Our policy only covers links to or images of hacked material themselves.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 14, 2020
“As noted this morning, we also currently view materials included in the articles as violations of our Hacked Materials Policy,” Twitter Safety claimed. “Commentary on or discussion about hacked materials, such as articles that cover them but do not include or link to the materials themselves, aren’t a violation of this policy. Our policy only covers links to or images of hacked material themselves,” they concluded.
It all sounds pretty ludicrous to us but what do we know?
They claim that the Post’s story had hacked images, so their hands were essentially tied. However, there was nothing in the story that indicated that any of the images were hacked in the slightest. This was just the cop-out that was used so that the liberals could have their fun.
Deadline has spoken to the owner of the repair shop and he does not sound pleased with how it all went down.
“John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the shop, was at the center of the pre-election New York Post story that claimed to have obtained emails retrieved from Biden’s laptop. But when the story was published, Twitter locked the Post‘s account, saying that it violated its policy on the distribution of hacked material. It also prevented other users from sharing the story.
But Mac Isaac claims that in taking the action, Twitter defamed him, because he is “now widely considered a hacker” and that he “began to receive negative reviews of his business as well as threats to his person and property.” For his part, Jack Dorsey says that the decision to censor the post was a mistake. He has yet to comment on the lawsuit that Isaac is filing, to the surprise of no one.
“The complaint cites several negative business reviews that criticize Mac Isaac based on the facts of the Post story — but it’s unclear why Twitter should be held liable for those reviews,” says the Verge. They may have a point in that regard. Bad reviews were going to happen because the readers would interpret the story as an attack on Biden.
We are not sure if this counts as defamation, though. Mac Isaac not being a public figure at the time definitely doesn’t hurt his case. On the other hand, Twitter can claim that they had no clue who he was. They also chose to reverse the policy soon after, so this is sure to help their cause. We anxiously await the outcome.
Quick Take
A political group took credit for planting a woman who espoused “eating babies” to address climate change at a recent town hall event hosted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But some have still misrepresented the woman as “AOC’s crazy supporter.”
Full Story
A bizarre moment at an Oct. 3 town hall event with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seemingly designed for virality.
Nearly an hour and a half into the event in Queens, New York, a woman stood up and proclaimed that, due to climate change, “we only have a few months left.” Her proposed solution? “We got to start eating babies.”
Blanca Ocasio Cortez
The exchange was instantly shared on social media and was shown the same night on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” A reporter for the conservative website the Daily Wire shared the video on Twitter, characterizing the episode as “one of Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents loses her mind over climate change.”
President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., shared that tweet, writing: “Seems like a normal AOC supporter to me.” The president then responded to his son’s tweet, calling Ocasio-Cortez a “Wack Job!”
But it was quickly revealed to be a political stunt. The same night, a political action committee that supports Trump — and whose website refers to global warming as “population reduction, not science” — publicly took credit.
“Thanks, that was us,” the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee wrote in a tweet, adding: “Satire is always the best.”
Also, a LaRouche PAC-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate in New Jersey, Daniel Burke, posted a statement from the organization to his campaign Facebook page on Oct. 4, saying a “volunteer for LaRouche PAC committed a prank against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after thinking about the actual implications of the Extinction Rebellion and the Green New Deal.”
In the days since, though, some have continued to share the video, misrepresenting it as if a genuine moment. On Oct. 4, the comedian Terrence K. Williams — a Trump supporter who recently spoke at a White House event alongside the president — posted a video of himself reacting to footage from the town hall under the caption, “AOC’s CRAZY SUPPORTER.”
In the video, the woman is heard saying: “We only have a few months left. I love that you support the Green Deal, but it’s not getting rid of fossil fuel. It’s not going to solve the problem fast enough … I think your next campaign slogan has to be this, ‘We got to start eating babies.’ We don’t have enough time. There’s too much CO2.”
She also removed a jacket to reveal a T-shirt that read, “Save the Planet, Eat the Children.”
In his video, Williams tells his viewers at one point: “AOC, this is what you are creating right here. AOC, this is all you.”
At no point does Williams acknowledge that the outburst was staged and that the woman was not a “supporter” of Ocasio-Cortez. Many who commented on his video said they were appalled by the woman’s remarks, and suggested she was representative of Ocasio-Cortez supporters. (One user wrote, “Look I don’t follow politics to [sic] much. Thanks for the posting. But seriously AOC is a lunatic and obviously her supporters are as well.”)
The video — which continues to attract viewers — has received more than 457,000 views and has been shared over 18,000 times. In an Oct. 7 Facebook post about the same reaction video, Williams reposted his video, urged “TWITTER LEGAL TEAM” to leave him alone, and wrote that he had “criticized AOC’s response to her looney supporter saying we should eat babies to stop climate change.”
Another Facebook page also posted a clip of the woman’s outburst on Oct. 3 with the caption: “This is REAL. These people are out there. One of AOC’s constituents, absolutely CRAZED over climate change hysteria, advocated for eating babies at tonight’s town hall meeting.”
Ocasio-Cortez has prioritized the issue of climate change during her months in Congress. One of her early proposals was a nonbinding resolution outlining goals for a “Green New Deal.” We should note that Ocasio-Cortez has not suggested that “we only have a few months left” due to climate change, as the woman at the event declared.
Ocasio-Cortez didn’t directly respond to the woman’s comments about eating babies. Instead, she said: “We need to treat the climate crisis with the urgency that it does present; luckily we have more than a few months. We do need to hit net-zero [greenhouse gas emissions] in several years. But I think we all need to understand that there are a lot of solutions that we have and that we can pursue and that if we act in a positive way, there is space for hope.”
In a tweet after the town hall, the congresswoman said, “At one point I was concerned there was a woman in crisis & want to ensure we treat the situation compassionately.” She also said, “This person may have been suffering from a mental condition and it’s not okay that the right-wing is mocking her and potentially make her condition or crisis worse.”
The next day, Ocasio-Cortez acknowledged that the episode was orchestrated, referring to the woman as a “Trump supporter.” We don’t know the woman’s identity, but as we said, the group that took credit for the staged incident supports Trump and has called the performance an act of satire.
Some on Twitter also pointed out that the woman can be seen in a video about stopping the “fascist green movement” that the LaRouche PAC posted in September.
We reached out to the LaRouche PAC to ask for more information on the stunt and the woman at the center of it, but we did not receive a response.
The political action committee’s namesake is Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time presidential candidate who died earlier this year. LaRouche had once referred to global warming as a “scientific fraud.”
Alexandria Ocasio-cortez Hacked
Editor’s note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on social media. Our previous stories can be found here.
Sources
Lyndon LaRouche PAC (@larouchepac). “LaRouchePAC trolls AOC, AOC doesn’t rule out eating babies. #EatTheBabies.” Twitter. 3 Oct 2019.
Lyndon LaRouche PAC (@larouchepac). “Thanks, that was us. Malthusianism isn’t new, Jonathan Swift can tell you that. Satire is always the best.” Twitter. 3 Oct 2019.
“Remarks by President Trump at Young Black Leadership Summit 2019.” White House. 4 Oct 2019.
Ocasio-cortez Pictures Hacked
“Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Town Hall Meeting.” C-SPAN. 3 Oct 2019.