No, AOC, It's Not the Government's Job to 'Rein in Our Media'

Posted on AllSides January 14th, 2021
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) told her social media followers earlier this week that Democrats in Congress might respond to the Capitol riot with some sort of "media literacy" initiative.

The phrase media literacy ordinarily implies helping individuals make sense of the media landscape, but AOC seems to have more in mind than that: She suggested "we're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation."

It's true that both traditional media and social media sometimes spread "disinformation...

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