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AOC calls Facebook a ‘cancer to democracy’ after Meta rebrand

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Makena Kelly
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Facebook a cancer to democracy" in a tweet on Thursday shortly after the company announced that it was changing its corporate name to Meta to better represent its focus on building the metaverse.

Meta as in we are a cancer to democracy metastasizing into a global surveillance and propaganda machine for boosting authoritarian regimes and destroying civil society... for profit!" said Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday.

Meta as in we are a cancer to democracy metastasizing into a global surveillance and propaganda machine for boosting authoritarian regimes and destroying civil society... for profit!" https://t.co/jzOcCFaWkJ

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 28, 2021

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