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Elon Musk flirts with AOC impersonator, Surgeon General's Report on social media, AI-generated true crime on TikTok, and more! — NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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The Twitter Parody of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Over the weekend, a verified parody account on Twitter that looks an awful lot like the real Twitter account for representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez claimed to have a crush on Elon Musk. Of course, it was not the real AOC. It was a parody heavy scare quotes account. The account has been around since 2018, but it was permanently suspended in 2019 under Jack Dorsey's leadership for misleading parody content. So currently, and I tried this right before we started recording, the fake AOC is ranked first in search results above the actual authentic AOC's official account because it's verified.

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