Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) complained Tuesday about a popular parody Twitter account that posts erroneous tweets that seem to embarrass the radical left member of Congress.
“FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral,” Ocasio-Cortez warned her 13.4 million Twitter followers.
“The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility,” she said of Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk, who is often cheeky with the New York State representative.
“It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread,” she continued. “I am assessing with my team how to move forward. In the meantime, be careful of what you see.”
I can’t believe someone would do that to us. https://t.co/8fHiPFgHIv
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody) (@AOCpress) May 30, 2023
Although Ocasio-Cortez voiced displeasure about the parody account, the account’s name contains “parody” in it to avoid confusion: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody).” The account has over 100,000 followers.
Twitter reinstated the account in May after its suspension in 2019. In its first tweet back from oblivion, it poked fun at Ocasio-Cortez during the debt ceiling negotiations on Capitol Hill.
“What’s wrong with defaulting on the debt? Everyone I know uses the defaults. My default browser is Chrome,” the account read on May 22.
Since then, it posted a number of tweets that gained hundreds of retweets and thousands of likes due to apparent hilarity:
Feeling cute may become a bartender again to help pay the US debt.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody) (@AOCpress) May 22, 2023
PRESS RELEASE: I introduced a bill today to make Ukraine the 57th State.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody) (@AOCpress) May 22, 2023
Today was an emotional day for me considering I visited the tomb of the unknown gender.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody) (@AOCpress) May 29, 2023
The real reason MAGA extremists are so infatuated with me … I'm young, gorgeous, successful, and a millionaire.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody) (@AOCpress) May 30, 2023
I’m introducing a bill in the House today to make it illegal to fart more than once per week.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody) (@AOCpress) May 23, 2023
If you fart more than once per week, you must capture them in a pickle jar and they must me properly disposed as nuclear waste.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
