Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) this week claimed that proceeds from sales of her campaign merchandise go to charity groups, a claim that appears to be at odds with information on her official website.
The contradicting claims come after Ocasio-Cortez, in a Twitter post on Nov. 2, took aim at billionaire businessman Elon Musk’s new plan to charge Twitter users a monthly fee to keep their accounts verified.
Musk announced the plan earlier this week after initially floating the idea of charging subscribers $20 a month to maintain a verified account.
“Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that ‘free speech’ is actually an $8/month subscription plan,” the New York lawmaker wrote on Twitter, referencing the new plan….