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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has found herself in yet another internet feud on platform X, formerly known as Twitter, with Elon Musk, the owner. The two have a history of engaging with each other on social media, often getting into disputes. This latest one has left AOC feeling unsafe and violated. A couple of days ago, AOC compared the current and past number of immigrants coming to New York, stating that the current wave is “nothing” compared to ones that came before. Conservative journalist Ashley St.Clair responded to AOC’s thoughts: “Girl math is saying immigrants coming le...
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Wesleyan University, an elite liberal arts college in Connecticut, has decided to end legacy admissions. The announcement came weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action. Legacy admissions have been a point of contention within higher education systems for decades. After the Supreme Court ruled that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s use of race-based admissions processes were unconstitutional, conversations resurfaced about legacy admissions as favoring white, wealthy applicants. Few highly selective colleges and universities have already dropped legacy admi...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatens to leave Twitter over impersonation. The New York congresswoman slammed Elon Musk for sharing a “sick” account that stole her identity while revealing she was “assessing” her relationship to the website and questioning if she should keep using it. The 33-year-old lawmaker wrote on the microblogging site: “FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral. The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility. “It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread. I am assessing with my team how to move forward. In the meantime, be carefu...
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), a progressive House member, has been removed from her position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee by the House Republicans. The motion’s success, enabled by the Republican Party’s slim victory in the U.S. House of Representatives during November’s midterm elections, was approved almost entirely on party lines. Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) was the only defector, choosing to vote present instead of going along with his party. Omar is a Somali-born immigrant and Muslim-American woman, and she along with several of her Democratic allies in Congress has claimed that ...
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Millions of Twitter users' data was ‘stolen’, say reports. The email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users were handed out free of charge on a hacker forum, accoridng to a website. Twitter did not respond to the claims but Alon Gal - a representative from Hudson Rock, the company who made the allegation - ruled it “significant”. He told BBC News that it unfortunately led to a lot of accounts getting hacked, targeted with phishing, and doxxed.” The latter is publishing personal information, such as their location, that can lead to the idenification. Last month, a watchdog was ordered...
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A hacker claims to have private details linked to more than 400 million Twitter accounts. The hacker, who is known as Ryushi, is requesting $200,000 in return for the data, and their actions has prompted Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) to launch an investigation. The DPC has announced that it will examine Twitter's "compliance with data-protection law in relation to that security issue". The data breach is said to include phone numbers and emails of some high-profile public figures, including celebrities and American politician Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, according to th...
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Ticketmaster and Live Nation are facing criticism about their operations after seeing site failures during the presale last week for Taylor Swift’s upcoming Eras tour. The Ticketmaster website crashed or froze as thousands of Swift fans attempted to buy presale tickets for The Eras Tour, Swift’s first tour since 2018, on Tuesday. Ticketmaster said in a statement on Thursday that “unprecedented traffic” on their site was due to “historically unprecedented demand.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) wrote in a tweet that Ticketmaster and Live Nation should be broken up. “Daily reminder t...
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Mark Ruffalo has warned Elon Musk he is "destroying [his] credibility" with Twitter. The 'I Know This Much Is True' actor has urged the billionaire businessman - who bought the social media platform last month - to "get off" the app and ask someone else to run the business for him as he weighed in to speak up for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The House of Representatives member had claimed her Twitter account had stopped working properly and suggested it was retaliation after she had criticised Musk's plans for a monthly fee for account verification. Mark shared Alexandria's tweet, which read: "Yo...
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) slammed Rep. Clay Higgins(R-Louisiana) on Thursday after Higgins referred to lawyer and clean energy advocate Raya Salter as a “young lady” and ” boo.” “In the four years that I’ve sat on this committee, I have never seen members of Congress, Republican or Democrat, disrespect a witness in the way that I have seen them disrespect you today. I do not care what party they are in. I’ve never seen anything like that,” she said. “For the gentleman of Louisiana and the comfort he felt in yelling at you like that, there’s more than one way to get a point acr...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) said she wanted “to deck” a man who harassed her, calling her his “favorite big-booty Latina,” as she walked up the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday. She commented on the incident on Twitter shortly after it happened posting a photo of the heckler’s face on Twitter to condemn him for his actions. She also called out the officer who watched the incident happen without stepping in. She later deleted the initial post saying, “I posted about a deeply disgusting incident that happened today on the Capitol steps, but took it down bc it’s clearly someone se...
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