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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

Last week, Representative Paul Gosar tweeted an anime video depiction of him killing his colleague,

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Now, this is pretty clearly unacceptable.

It's against Twitter's terms of service, and if I tweeted a video of myself murdering a coworker,

not only would I be fired, I'd probably be getting a visit from law enforcement.

Twitter removed the tweet but did not kick GOSAR off the platform.

And after he was censured and stripped of his two committee assignments by a vote of 223 to 207 for tweeting the video,

he retweeted it because he doesn't care.

Women of color like AOC face disproportionate levels of harassment, disinformation, and threats

online. And this kind of abuse impacts us all because we're not able to have a healthy,

functioning democracy unless everyone is able to fully participate. Let's revisit this episode

that originally aired in February after AOC faced attacks online because she shared her

experience of the insurrection. To really hear the toll that harassment takes on women originally aired in February, after AOC faced attacks online because she shared her experience

of the insurrection, to really hear the toll that harassment takes on women of color in the

public eye. If you were online at all last week, you probably saw Representative Alexandria

Ocasio-Cortez use Instagram Live to give a harrowing account of what she experienced

from inside the Capitol complex during the insurrection on the Capitol. In this account, she also shared that, like so

many of us, she is a survivor of sexual violence. Now, this triggered a real-time tsunami of

disinformation. Right-weened figures like Representative Nancy Mace and Jack Posabic and others falsely accused AOC

of not really being at the Capitol at all or exaggerating her claims. So it's true, while she was not

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