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Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s critique of fact-checking is valid

Eric Levitz  |  January 10, 2019

Early last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did a bad tweet. After misreading an article in the Nation on the Pentagon’s accounting errors, Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed that the Defense Department had wasted enough money over the past two decades to finance 66 percent of Medicare for All. This was an innocent mistake.

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