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AOC’s brilliant Zuckerberg takedown has been immortalised as a meme

AOC’s brilliant Zuckerberg takedown has been immortalised as a meme

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s grilling of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is a gift that keeps on giving.

While calling the tech giant out over his willingness to run political ads featuring false or misleading claims, the New York congresswoman was captured using a hand gesture popularly used by Italians to show frustration.

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The image has since spawned a meme, a hashtag and launched a thousand borderline offensive Italian accents.

Here are some of the finest #ItalianAOC memes.

Some chose to stick with the subject matter at hand.

While others decided to branch out into other topical avenues.

There were a lot of noir crime film references.

But soon the meme was being used for more personal applications.

Until everyone could relate to this.

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