Ocasio-Cortez Apologizes for Blocking Former New York Politician on Twitter

Ocasio-Cortez Apologizes for Blocking Former New York Politician on Twitter
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Feb. 27, 2019. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has settled a lawsuit with a former New York assemblyman that accused her of violating his first amendment rights when she blocked him on Twitter.

Dov Hikind, a former Democratic state assemblyman and the founder of Americans Against Anti-Semitism, said the New York congresswoman had apologized and unblocked him on Twitter in an agreement on the lawsuit filed in a federal court in July.