A surreal dialogue between AOC and Elon Musk took place on Twitter on Friday, April 29th. (Photo: Getty Images)
A surreal dialogue between AOC and Elon Musk took place on Twitter on Friday, April 29th. (Photo: Getty Images)
UNITED STATES – If Elon Musk plans to bring those back “maximum fun” on Twitter, not sure if he wanted to do it at his own expense. Since buying the social network, the billionaire has never missed an opportunity to defend his projects for the platform and his vision of freedom of expression.
However, on Friday, April 29, he fell on a bone, or rather, on a well-known user of the social network in the United States: Democrat-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an expert in online wit and social network communication a Twitter account which has 12.9 million subscribers.
“I’m tired of being under the collective stress of a potential hate crime explosion because an ego-ridden billionaire has unilateral control of a massive communications platform and is doing whatever it takes because Tucker Carlson and Peter Thiel took him out to dinner and he felt special.” posted the one nicknamed “AOC”.
Among the references to understand this message: “hate crimes”, which may concern abuses caused by hateful or illegal messages posted on social networks; Tucker Carlson, a Fox News anchor and figure on the American conservative right; and Peter Thiel, a billionaire co-founder of PayPal and a well-known supporter of Donald Trump after denouncing Silicon Valley’s “groupthink.”
“stop flirting with me”
A tweet and an atmosphere that did not leave Elon Musk indifferent, although he is also a figure in Silicon Valley, from where he already directs SpaceX and Tesla. To the point where he ambiguously replied to AOC’s message: “Stop flirting with me, I’m very shy”.
Except that ‘Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez immediately replied that she wasn’t talking about him but… about Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, who also regularly gets caught up in social media moderation issues.
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“I was talking about Zuckerberg but ok,” she wrote to Elon Musk. Because it turns out that Mark Zuckerberg actually had dinner with Peter Thiel (who until recently was on the Facebook board), Tucker Carlson, but also Donald Trump, during a White House party in 2019.
Was the wording of the first message a bed of roses to trap Elon Musk who uses his Twitter account very regularly these days? We’ll never know, but AOC then quickly deleted their response, which referenced Mark Zuckerberg. she has explained then to a user who asked him why: “I try (if I can) to avoid giving people with massive ego issues like this attention and replies on Twitter that they’re dying”.
That didn’t stop AOC from returning to the charge on Saturday April 30 by re-posting this surreal dialogue with Elon Musk, accompanied by a comment: “🤷🏽♀️ as I told you, ego issues” .
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This article originally appeared on The HuffPost and has been updated.