Marjorie Taylor Greene Agrees With AOC on Something—Breaking Up Big Tech

Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be at polar opposites of the political spectrum, but they agree on one prominent issue—they both believe breaking up Big Tech platforms is a good idea.

Greene, a Georgia Republican, highlighted her agreement with Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Democrat from New York, on breaking up Big Tech "monopolies" in a Thursday Gettr post. But Greene wrote that she and Ocasio-Cortez agree for very different reasons. "Communists Democrats want Big Tech monopoly's power to control information taken away because they are angry that people have posted against covid vaccines and [Dr. Anthony] Fauci and the Biden admin's propaganda about covid," she said.

The chances of both congresswomen working together on legislation to address Big Tech appear highly unlikely, but there is bipartisan interest in Congress to take action to address widespread concerns about such companies. For example, Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, and Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, have collaborated on a bill that would block Amazon and Google from favoring their own products and services on their platforms.

In her Gettr post, Greene, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, said the "Communist Democrats" are "angry Facebook, Spotify and others don't immediately cancel any and all speech against the globalist agenda to vaccinate the entire world against the 99% survivable Covid-19 man made virus.

"But I want to break them up to allow for more freedom of speech, more information, and more competition in the marketplace," she added.

Greene also shared a link to an article highlighting recent remarks Ocasio-Cortez made to Yahoo Finance about Facebook. "They are acting as an advertiser, they are acting as both platform and vendor, they are...a communications platform, which has historically been a well-established domain of antitrust," the Democrat said in the interview.

She said Facebook has been "corrosive" and "should be broken up," adding, "We should pursue antitrust activity on Facebook, and there are so many different reasons why."

Notably, despite Greene's and other Republicans' repeated claims, progressives and the Democratic Party are not communists. Communism is a political theory that advocates making all property publicly owned and redistributing all wealth and resources in society. No member of the Democratic Party or elected member of Congress is in favor of such a governmental system.

Progressive Democrats do call for slightly higher taxes on the wealthy and more social spending to help the lower and middle classes. Most of the policies they advocate for are well established in wealthy, developed countries throughout Western Europe—which maintain strongly democratic and capitalist systems.

When it comes to the coronavirus virus, some scientists and many conservative lawmakers (like Greene) have speculated or claimed that it was man-made. However, numerous scientists believe it occurred naturally in the wild and spread from animals to humans. Some scientists believe that it is possible, or likely, that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Currently, the precise origin of the virus is not known.

Meanwhile, GOP and Democratic lawmakers continue to raise serious concerns about Big Tech companies such as Twitter and Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp—and their influence on society. But as Greene alluded to in her Gettr post, there remain wide disagreements about what the key issues are and how to address lawmakers' concerns.

Newsweek reached out to press representatives for Greene and Ocasio-Cortez for further comment but did not immediately receive responses.