mo4ch:>‘Gossip masquerading as reporting’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flogs Politico for ‘fake news’ | Mo4ch News
Congressmember-elect and rising political star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has lashed out at Politico, accusing the news outlet of repeatedly running fact-deficient stories about her based on anonymous sources.Ocasio-Cortez, who is set to become the youngest woman to serve in Congress, took to social media to air one of her major grievances about her new life in the nation’s capital: Sloppy journalism.“One disappointment about DC is the gossip that masquerades as ‘reporting’,” she wrote in a tweet posted on Tuesday. Attaching a Politico article alleging that she was plotting to unseat a fellow House Democrat, Ocasio-Cortez noted that the article relied on anonymous sources – and that the only on-the-record comment was a denial.“My dad had a name for junk articles like this: ‘Birdcage lining,’” she quipped.According to the soon-to-be congresswoman, the piece represents the second Politico article about her “in a short period of time with 0 named sources” to back the claims being made.“The…