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MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) became the favorite target of conservative trolls after her election to the US House of Representatives in November 2018. The first-year lawmaker was subject to a number of false rumors her inexperience (at 29, she was the youngest woman ever elected to Congress), her financial status (she was a bartender before running for election) or, inexplicably, her dance moves.
On January 16, 2019, a day after Ocasio-Cortez announced that she would join the Financial Services Committee of the house. Facebook's user, Donn Johnson, issued a message claiming that Ocasio-Cortez was uncomfortable with the post and claimed, without any proof, to have closed two chequing accounts, she had is the subject of two "sheriff evictions" and that his credit rating was 430:
A credit score of 430 puts a consumer in the "very poor" solvency range:
Although this post was published without any evidence to support its claims, many viewers accepted its unverified information as fact and spread it around from Facebook. The rumor was also gathered by an army of Twitter trolls who continued to assert its claim as if it was based on some kind of credible report:
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