Obviously, this is not legal and this is the kinda stuff conservatives latch on to to say look the Democrats want to take away your constitutional rights. Those cacs eat it up too.
I do believe the media should have some standards they are held to that prohibits them from blatantly spreading false information, but that is an extremely slippery slope.
Today, it will be regulating hard right conservatives rhetoric eventually when the Republicans regain power (hopefully no time soon) it will be them trying to regulate more progressive rhetoric.
I say let those cacs have their Fox News and a few other platforms that cater to them, eventually the Republicans will be faced with a choice do they keep pushing the party further to the right with those hillbillies, rednecks, blatant racism, conspiracy theories, and rhetoric that's not substantiated by facts or does the establishment Republicans reign it in and try to go back to the George Bush and Mitt Romney type Republicans that talked about supply side economics, tax breaks for businesses, and were less heavy on the rhetoric about socialism, discrediting the media, and dog whistling racism.
AOC is radical and that's really why Pelosi and Schumer and them don't really fool with her. What she suggested with this isn't legal though. I fool with AOC on most issues even though I don't believe those Hispanics she represents are a friend to Black folks either. She is way to progressive to be accepted throughout America right now. 20-30 years from now someone like her if not her will come along and wreck shop on American politics but right now she's a little ahead of her time.