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Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Pro-Trump Twitter accounts posing as African Americans claimed they were Democrats until a month ago.
Several of these posts had over 10,000 retweets.
Turns out their profile pictures were a stock photo and a Dutch model who had nothing to do with it. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Several of these posts had over 10,000 retweets.
Turns out their profile pictures were a stock photo and a Dutch model who had nothing to do with it. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Here's @KRON619, an African-American who was brand new to the Trump train.
He's been a "Dem my whole life" until "I finally saw their racism." Over 12,000 retweets.
Turns out he's a stock photo.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
He's been a "Dem my whole life" until "I finally saw their racism." Over 12,000 retweets.
Turns out he's a stock photo.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Here's @WentDemToRep, an African-American who has "been a Democrat my whole life" and "will be registering a Republican. 13k retweets.
His profile picture is a Dutch model who "called his mom because I was stressing out" over having his identity stolen.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
His profile picture is a Dutch model who "called his mom because I was stressing out" over having his identity stolen.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
The fake African-American accounts @Kron619 and @WentDemToRep had their accounts suspended for "spam and platform manipulation" at the same time as @PeterGammo.
Peter's a real guy who said he doesn't have anything to do with the accounts then hung up. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Peter's a real guy who said he doesn't have anything to do with the accounts then hung up. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Kron619 was dormant since 2015. It reappeared in June to almost exclusively retweet/reply to PeterGammo.
Kron619, the fake African American account, accrued 20k more followers than Peter.
When WentDemToRepub joined Twitter, he instantly tagged them both. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Kron619, the fake African American account, accrued 20k more followers than Peter.
When WentDemToRepub joined Twitter, he instantly tagged them both. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
All of these accounts are down now for spam and "specifically, artificially manipulative behavior."
Five of these tweets proclaiming to be African-Americans who recently became pro-Trump had over 10,000 retweets in the last month.
Like this one.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Five of these tweets proclaiming to be African-Americans who recently became pro-Trump had over 10,000 retweets in the last month.
Like this one.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
