Celebrities and AOC queue up on Twitter to lampoon Ted Cruz after he suggests Climate Accord Treaty is of more interest in Paris than Pittsburgh
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a hit at Senator Ted Cruz on Twitter on Wednesday night after he criticized the new Biden administration
Cruz had targeted Biden s executive order to rejoin the Paris Climate accord
The Texas Senator claimed it showed Biden is more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh Do you also believe the Geneva Convention was about the views of the citizens of Geneva? AOC fired back in a tweet
Can Biden Learn Anything from Trump about How Presidents Use Social Media?
“Biden won’t make policy through social media,” says Chris Wells, a College of Communication associate professor of emerging media studies. “He’ll have a much more traditionally run administration with hopefully competent officials.” Photo by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Politics Can Biden Learn Anything from Trump about How Presidents Use Social Media?
COM’s Chris Wells on what we should, and should not, expect to see from the new US leader on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms
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Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s presidencies should be wildly different, and not just because of their politics. One of the most obvious ways may be their reliance on, and use of, social media.
Liberal journalists and social media voices have stepped up their calls to "deprogram," deplatform or outright threaten right-leaning voices in the aftermath of the deadly Capitol riot earlier this month.
Said the Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
“There’s absolutely a commission that’s being discussed but it seems to be more investigating in style rather than truth and reconciliation,” she said.
“I do think that several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is part of what happened here,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) went on.
“We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation,” she said.
Let’s cut to the chase. The objective here is to silence the press. As so many people have quickly said, this is straight out of Orwell’s