Meta – formerly known as Facebook – should be broken up, AOC said in an interview with Yahoo Finance published Tuesday.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks with a reporter on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 3, 2021.
But AOC took more issue with Facebook's impact on the spread of "disinformation" in her interview with Yahoo Finance. "When you look at a company like Facebook, and the completely corrosive ways that they have exercised an abuse, I believe, in civil society writ large – not just our democracies but … other countries – when we talk about production of vaccines or perhaps what we can do to … help them – they say … there are some things that the United States provide that are welcome," she said.
The New York congresswoman also criticized the social media company for contributing to "social violence" and "accelerating large-scale, very dangerous and some would call genocidal activities in places like South Asia, etc., human rights abuses" and "hate" within the U.S.