That being said, it really annoyed me how many AOC posts I saw on Reddit. I kinda like her, but I'm not from the US, so ultimately I don't care that much. It felt like Reddit was just a place to post every AOC tweet in existence.
Of course we can argue that hate is always bad, but this would turn into the ancient argument about what (physical) targets the right has, vs. the left. One group punches down, the other group tends to punch up.
And only one group of people says that they're being literally killed by words.
Also, most news channels do zero (literally) fact checking and often explicitly lie. Through 2020 I've seen so many talking heads directly contradict the videos coming out of events. Videos they could easily find and watch on Youtube if they cared.