The Democratic Senator for New York also claimed that the tech giant, which recently changed its name to Meta, should be subject to antitrust action for its "corrosive abuse of democracy" and role in "contributing to and accelerating social violence."
Facebook and other social media goliaths like Twitter have been slammed over the past 18 months for supplying a platform to spread what some sense as false information regarding the virus.
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But there are few examples of the same social media networks presenting blanket, apparently arbitrary bans on reputable scientists as well as politicians challenging the official response to Covid-19.
The progressive lawmaker's latest tirade against Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook and other US firms comes a day after she returned to Twitter, having declared less than 24 hours before that she was taking a break from the platform due to "negative comments that caused anxiety."
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AOC has one of the largest social media followings of any US politician with close to 13 million followers on Twitter, 8.5 million followers on Instagram, and over a million subscribers on Facebook.
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Facebook did not immediately respond to a MailOnline request for comment.
The interview with Yahoo! Finance's Andy Serwer published last night saw AOC rip into Facebook and other unnamed "US firms" for their handling of the pandemic.
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"There are things we want the United States to stop exporting and one of those things is disinformation — disinformation through US-founded companies like Facebook that have absolutely slowed and frankly sabotaged the global effort to fight against the Coronavirus," she declared.
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"Facebook should be broken up," the lawmaker continued. "They're an advertiser. They are acting as both platform and vendor. They are a communication platform, which has historically been a well-established domain of antitrust."
AOC drew fire for her COVID view just weeks ago when she was snapped maskless at multiple social engagements during a trip to Miami in Florida.
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Although Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order banning the local government from enforcing face mask mandates across the State, AOC has long sought harsher restrictions and has claimed that other states should embrace the wildly unpopular COVID measures currently in place in New York.
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It comes as a total of 72 percent of surveyed Americans say they are cautious about how Facebook oversees personal data in a poll that also reflects a distrust of other social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp - with the latter two also owned by Facebook parent company Meta.
Just 20 percent of people said they trust Facebook "a great deal," with another 72 percent of the 1,100 asked by The Washington Post voicing distrust of the social networking giant; eight percent of people did not offer a view.
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