{"id":31292,"date":"2019-02-18T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=31292"},"modified":"2019-02-18T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:57:32","slug":"twitter-suspends-user-account-for-criticizing-ocasio-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=31292","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Suspends User Account for Criticizing Ocasio-Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Writer Temporarily Suspended By Twitter for Questioning if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Put Her Boyfriend on Payroll<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->NWO Report<\/p>\n<h3>Writer Luke Thompson was temporarily suspended by Twitter for calling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez out on giving her boyfriend a job in her Congressional office.<\/h3>\n<p>Thompson had discovered that Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s boyfriend, Riley Roberts, is now listed as staff in the House directory and tweeted \u201cwhile\u00a0you were having a nice Valentine\u2019s Day, @AOC decided to put her boyfriend on staff \u2013 drawing a salary on the taxpayer\u2019s dime. Nice to see her adapting to the swamp so quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter claimed that a screenshot of his House directory listing violated the rules against posting private information.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"clipImage\" src=\"https:\/\/screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com\/images\/00c2f45a-5d44-4e41-b833-486f3540b02d.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez responded to Thompson\u2019s claim by saying that he only has an account so that he can access her schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually this cal designation is a permission so he can have access to my Google Cal. Congressional spouses get Gcal access all the time. Next time check your facts before you tweet nonsense,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez responded \u2014 though her claim was quickly debunked by the writer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"clipImage\" src=\"https:\/\/screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com\/images\/3904c046-7361-4647-9457-a91510b82ba2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thompson responded by noting that he is listed in the directory as \u201cstaff\u201d \u2014 not as a boyfriend or spouse. He additionally noted that the House doesn\u2019t use Google.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"clipImage\" src=\"https:\/\/screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com\/images\/3730cac1-8473-4265-a507-feb6df59c4fb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unclear at what title or pay grade he was hired as he isn&#39;t in Legistorm yet. But it&#39;s a bad look. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yUbRPik4Vt\">pic.twitter.com\/yUbRPik4Vt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ltthompso\/status\/1096407293091024897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"clipImage\" src=\"https:\/\/screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com\/images\/c693506b-b6a5-4187-9a4c-469b8a3c7498.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nworeport.me\/2019\/02\/17\/writer-temporarily-suspended-by-twitter-for-questioning-if-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-put-her-boyfriend-on-payroll\/\">https:\/\/nworeport.me\/2019\/02\/17\/writer-temporarily-suspended-by-twitter-for-questioning-if-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-put-her-boyfriend-on-payroll\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-rating-enabled sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Temporarily Suspended By Twitter for Questioning if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Put Her Boyfriend on Payroll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}