Elon Musk accused Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of flirting with him after she raged that his purchase of Twitter had stoked hate crimes.

'Stop hitting on me, I'm really shy,' he wrote, adding a blushing emoji to go along with it.

Musk was replying directly to a tweet sent by the Democrat Representative earlier on Friday, which suggested he'd only bought the platform at the behest of Fox News host Tucker Carlson and his PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.  

'Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special,' she tweeted. 

AOC later replied to Musk's dig by claiming she was actually referring to Facebook and Instagram owner Mark Zuckerberg.

She wrote: 'I was talking about Zuckerberg, but ok,' then deleted the tweet a minute later. It is unclear why she removed the message, with the Bronx and Queens representative yet to comment further. 

Earlier in the day, Ocasio-Cortez took exception to Musk's claim that the 'far left' had taken over the Democratic Party in recent years after he posted a graphic showing what he saw as the straying of the party left since 2008.

'The extreme left is taking over WHERE,' she wrote. 'In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion. Can anyone name a "far left" policy that extreme implemented anywhere? We can't even get our party to import cheaper RXs from Canada. foh.'