NBC News then published a tweet that seems to imply that Ocasio-Cortez Biden is snobbish.
“In one of the DNC’s most recent speeches, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did not sign Joe Biden,” a tweet from the official NBC News Twitter account said.
NBC News later deleted the tweet and added a screenshot of it to an editor’s note, which was tweeted hours later saying, “This tweet should have included more detail about the nomination process.”
Ocasio-Cortez acknowledged in a tweet on Tuesday night that conventional rules can be confusing and elaborate on their role there.
“If you were confused, do not worry! Agreement rules require roll Call & Nominations for every candidate who passes the delegate’s threshold,” she tweets. “I was asked to be the 2nd nom for sen. Sanders for roll call.” They also congratulate Biden on winning the nomination.
NBC News’ misleading tweet ranked Ocasio-Cortez, who retweeted the editor’s note and slammed the network for how it was handled.
“It caused an enormous amount of hatred and vitriol, and now the mischief you have created is circulating on other networks,” she said. “Everything to generate hate clicks from a pre-recorded, routine procedural motion.”
She also bought the network for editing the editor’s note timeline, and asked how they “repaired the enormous amount of damage and misinformation for which you are now responsible?”
“Because a 1:15 hour tweet slips under the radar after blowing up a completely false and divisive story about networks, it is not,” she said.
NBC News declined to comment beyond sharing the editor’s notes and explanations in a blog post on the subject.
“The DNC shared the procedural purpose of my comments to media WELL beforehand. @NBC knew what was going to happen & that it was routine,” she tweeted. “How does a header that happens malicious & misleading come with this foreknowledge?”
Ocasio-Cortez did not respond to a request for comment.
CNN’s Adam Levy and Sarah Mucha contributed to this report.
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