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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blocked a conservative news outlet on Twitter, and legal experts say that could be unconstitutional - Business Insider

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blocked a conservative news outlet on Twitter, and legal experts say that could be unconstitutional  Business Insider

- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blocked The Daily Caller, a conservative media outlet, from following her on Twitter, the outlet reported Thursday. - Ocasio-Cortez's move may be unconstitutional, according to a handful of recent federal court decisions which held that public officials' social media accounts are public forums. - "When you use a social media account in a way that makes it like a virtual town, you can't kick people out of that town hall," one legal expert told INSIDER. - The courts have interpreted the First Amendment as requiring "public officials to withstand even very off...



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