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Ocasio-Cortez said she’s being attacked online by bots in deleted tweet

She can't imagine that people actually dislike her policies

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made a bizarre claim that she was being attacked by bots on social media in a tweet she later deleted.

The upstart Socialist Democrat accused a Republican operative of running "bot accounts" to "manipulate online discourse."

She offered no evidence for her weird claim.

"If you notice a lot more trolls on social media re: politics, it's because Mitch McConnell's former Chief of Staff runs a multimillion-dollar operation to have bot accounts manipulate online discourse," she said.

"Because we all know how hard they work to make the world a better place," she concluded.

She deleted the tweet but it was readily available on social media by those who took screenshots while it was posted.

The object of her scorn, Josh Holmes, fired back a response calling her out for her unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.

"Every journalist in America should ask @AOC what she's talking about here," Holmes tweeted.

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