Dana Mathewson

Color me skeptical, but I'll bet this is because she has recently been mocked for some of her recent social media activity.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), known for live-streaming herself on Instagram, said on Sunday that she has given up Facebook and is scaling back on all social media, which she described as a "public health risk to everybody.”

The New York Democrat said on Yahoo News’s Skullduggery podcast that she has stopped using her Facebook account — even though her official page remains active and still runs active advertisements sponsored by her campaign, according to the Washington Post.

"I actually think that social media poses a public health risk to everybody,” she said on the podcast. "There are amplified impacts for young people, particularly children under the age of three, with screen time. But I think it has a lot of effects on older people. I think it has effects on everybody. Increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism.”

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She last live-streamed herself on Thursday, April 4, for about an hour, as she sat on the floor in her Washington, DC, apartment and ranted about her political views while eating popcorn, drinking white wine, and putting together IKEA furniture.

Critics widely mocked the video on social media, including those who mimicked her in their own videos.

 

Well, at least she didn't live-stream herself at the dentist's office, like Beto O'Rourke did. I was rather expecting something like that to be next. But seriously, folks, if she's talking like this, you have to wonder if she's going to call for a mandatory limit on social media usage -- or at least for "non-liberals."

Article here: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-public-health-risk/

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 16, 2019 06:45 AM (TxseR)

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