New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made headlines for a fiery tweet on Thursday, in response to the news of Facebook's name change that represents a major rebrand of its corporate identity. The name, of course, is changing from Facebook to Meta. That's a consequence of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's desire to reorient the company around the concept of the metaverse. But AOC, one of the most consistently anti-Facebook politicians in Congress, was having none of it. "Meta," she tweeted, "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!"
What her tweet didn't make clear, however, is that the congresswoman's campaign has considerably added to the very Facebook profit machine she railed against. Indeed, Facebook's ad library shows that AOC has spent millions of dollars on ads across the company's services. Including new fundraising pitches that started running on Facebook and Instagram the day before her tweet comparing the company to cancer.
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