Sinclair, ABC TV Ad During Democratic Debate Stirs Up Twitter

The Hill: Twitter users pushed the “BoycottABC” hashtag into the social platform’s top trending items on Friday after local affiliates of the network aired an ad from a GOP super PAC that showed a photo of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) being set on fire. Twitter’s trending sidebar showed more than 40,000 tweets had been shared using the hashtag to call for a boycott.