Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
  • A former top Twitter official said the social network bent its rules for Trump's 2019 racist tweet.
  • At the time, Trump told four Democratic lawmakers of color to "go back" to the countries they came from.
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the targets of the tweet, was clearly animated by what she learned.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday lit into complaints about anti-conservative bias on Twitter after a former Twitter employee testified that the social network changed its policies in 2019 to accommodate President Donald Trump's racist tweets that told four Democratic congresswomen of color to "go back" to where they came from.