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A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by credo@laguna.chat to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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“I strongly suspect that this person doesn’t exist,” said John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto who studies online disinformation. “It’s as if she dropped from the moon and arrived fully formed with this narrative that makes liberals look like idiots.”

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[–] credo@laguna.chat 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know WaPo is paywalled, here is a gift link: https://wapo.st/3JJrHtQ

[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I am able to see it in reader mode on Firefox Beta. I am also using several addons and a userscript though.

[–] EldestMalk@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks!