Tangentially related: Bernie Sanders should stop calling himself a socialist, partly because he's never actually advocated for nationalizing industries (redistributing the means of production to the "peoples state"), and partly because it's so damn unpopular with the electorate to call yourself one.
I'm just surprised to see it related to anything other than social media. It seems like every week we get a new article calling for the government to take over Google, Facebook and Twitter and force them to be "public carriers."
AFAIK, Bernie advocates for Nordic style "social democracy," which isn't "capital S Socialism" per se, but I agree that Americans who tend to see anything to the left of laissez-faire free markets as just different shades of communism might not grasp the nuance.
Still, for someone who should be so damn unpopular, Bernie and his socialism seems to be pretty popular. Just not with his own party, unfortunately.