Fake news is now turning into fake tweets. Twitter is seeing a growing trend of fake accounts posing as Black supporters of President Donald Trump, then vanish from the Internet after pushing right-wing propaganda to a large following.
Fake Accounts Called ‘Digital Blackface’
According to the Washington Post, researchers discovered a small network of about two dozen accounts that generated more than 265,000 retweets and mentions on Twitter over the course of a few days, gaining thousands of followers before Twitter could block the fake accounts. The accounts have profile pics of random Black people taken from the Internet; they tend to use identical language and hit the same pro-Trump talking points.
Republican Agenda Being Pushed
One example of these fake accounts had the Twitter handle @CopJrCliff, featuring a pic of a Black police officer and the words “VOTE REPUBLICAN.” The account posted only eight tweets but gained 24,000 followers. A few days after it was created, the account was gone.
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