Don’t laugh off Bernie Sanders’ communist AI-heist attempt — young voters are falling for it

Nypost · Jun 06, 2026 · 844 words · By Betsy McCaughey

Educational Indoctrination Generational Political Divide Property Rights

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Don’t laugh off Bernie Sanders’ communist AI-heist attempt — young voters are falling for it See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleFar-left politicians want to annihilate property rights — and a large share of young voters are buying into it.

Common ground

That’s a red flag: Our school systems have become socialist indoctrination factories.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “DSA saw its membership’s average age plunge from 68 to 33 in the last decade.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the average age of DSA membership changing from 68 to 33.

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Claim 2: “Mandani captured 78% of under-30 voters in November, per an ABC News exit poll.”

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Web search results confirm Mamdani captured the majority of young voters, but they do not explicitly cite the specific '78%' figure from an ABC News exit poll; the evidence is too general to corroborate the exact number.

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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 6, 2025 ... Exit polls revealed Mamdani captured the majority of votes from the younger population and newcomers to the city.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/mamdani-clinches-votes-young-pe…

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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 5, 2025 ... THANK YOU KNICKS! All three candidates endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani took down establishment Democrats, including two congressional ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQsQIPsEWvn/

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 28, 2026 ... Many businesses in the USA already do use various different Socialist business models that are quite successful.|Scott Nowlan The Democratic ...
https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews/posts/after-rep-josh-gotthe…

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Claim 3: “A staggering 62% of voters age 18 to 29 hold a favorable view of socialism, and 34% favor communism.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the specific percentages (62% and 34%) of voters aged 18-29 favoring socialism and communism.

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Claim 4: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new law last year requiring his state’s public schools to teach “the brutal realities of life under communism.””

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Claim 5: “New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani... his new Block by Block housing plan proposes seizing apartment buildings from their owners to give them to what he calls “responsible stewards,” including tenants”

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Web search results and Wikipedia confirm Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor of NYC and that his 'Block by Block' plan proposes seizing buildings from negligent owners to transfer them to responsible stewards/tenants.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An election for the mayor of New York City was held on November 4, 2025. Democratic state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani won the election with 50.78% of the vote, defeating Republican activist Curtis Sliw…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_City_mayoral_ele…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA) is the flagship New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. It is the largest chapter of the organization, with more tha…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Democratic_Socia…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Zohran Kwame Mamdani (born October 18, 1991) is an American politician who has served since January 2026 as the 112th mayor of New York City. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Social…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani

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Claim 6: “Sanders said he’ll introduce legislation to slap these companies with a 50% “ownership tax””

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Multiple web search results confirm Sanders introduced or planned to introduce legislation for a 50% 'stock tax' or 'ownership share' to fund a public wealth fund.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks. Beyond AGI, artificial superi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bennett Cohen (born March 18, 1951) is an American entrepreneur, activist and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's and a prominent supporter of progressive causes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Cohen_(businessman)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bernie Sanders is an American politician who has served as a senator from Vermont since 2007. Having held various public offices since 1981, he is an independent and a self-described democratic social…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Bernie_…

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Claim 7: “This week’s primaries produced outright wins or runoff advancements for more than a dozen Democratic Socialists-backed candidates in five states.”

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Multiple web search results from May 2026 report that more than a dozen DSA-backed candidates won or advanced in primaries across five states.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a socialist political organization in the United States, and the largest such organization in US history, with more than 120,000 members as of July 2026. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_Ameri…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Democratic socialism is a left-wing set of political philosophies that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workpla…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism

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Claim 8: “According to a recent Heartland Institute/Rasmussen Reports poll, nearly 60% of likely voters age 18 to 24 want a Democratic Socialist in the White House in 2028.”

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While web search results discuss Gen-Z views on socialism, none of the provided results specifically mention a 'Heartland Institute/Rasmussen Reports poll' with the 60% figure for 2028.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 7, 2026 ... Democratic socialism is a political and economic philosophy that advocates for a socialist economy to be achieved through democratic, ...
https://www.facebook.com/ChristianScienceMonitor/posts/polls…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... Reiner Bohlenthat form of socialism is called social democracy and it allows capitalism to survive and eventually come back. It also relies on ...
https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist/posts/whether-or-not-m…

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web search NEUTRAL — 24 hours ago ... Marcy Kirkton Most of the wealth possessed by high-net-worth individuals isn't sitting as cash in a bank account.
https://www.facebook.com/RedStateBlog/posts/socialism-rising…

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Claim 9: “He’s targeting OpenAI, Anthropic (creator of Claude) and xAI, for starters.”

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Web search results specifically mention that the proposal targets OpenAI and xAI, aligning with the claim's list of targets.

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web search NEUTRAL — Bernie is a 2011 American biographical black comedy thriller film directed by Richard Linklater, and written by Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth. The film stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthe…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_(2011_film)

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web search NEUTRAL — Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders

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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 2, 2025 · Bernard “Bernie” Sanders is the senior U.S. senator from Vermont and the longest-serving independent in congressional history. Though he is formally unaffiliated, Sanders teams with Demo…
https://thedailyguardian.com/world/us/who-is-bernie-sanders-…

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Claim 10: “Texas has passed a similar law.”

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Claim 11: “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on the federal government to confiscate half the value of the nation’s largest artificial intelligence companies.”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a plan for the federal government to own 50% of the largest AI companies via a sovereign wealth fund.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in the United States on November 7, 2028, to elect the president and vice president for a term of four years. In the 2024 elections, then-former preside…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_United_States_presidentia…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI data center is a specialized data center facility designed for the computationally intensive tasks of training and running artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. Unlike genera…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center

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Claim 12: “Sanders lifted the idea from two law professors, Jeremy Bearer-Friend of the George Washington University School of Law and Sarah Polcz of the University of California at Davis School of Law.”

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Web search results explicitly link the proposal to a paper titled 'Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI' written by professors Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gab is an American alt-tech microblogging and social networking service. Widely described as a haven for far-right and alt-right users, Gab has attracted users and groups who have been banned from oth…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Assassin's Creed is a multimedia franchise published by Ubisoft, primarily known for its open-world action-adventure stealth video games. Beyond gaming, the series spans novels, comics, films, and an …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Suikoden III (Japanese: 幻想水滸伝III, Hepburn: Gensō Suikoden Surī) is a role-playing video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 video game …
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Claim 13: “CoolKid Facts, a popular education website aimed mainly at elementary-age students, teaches kids that communists believe “the state should provide every citizen with their basic needs . . . and no one is above anyone else.””

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