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A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along (www.washingtonpost.com)
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For months, the Erica Marsh account had raised suspicions among online misinformation experts due to her lack of a real-world footprint and her devotion to attention-grabbing viewpoints one called “cartoonishly liberal.”

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[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

An interesting viewpoint.

Would you have even bothered to write it if you weren't trying to prove the validity of this article on this community though? Cause none of what you said is in the article.

The article explains: The fake person, what topics they went over, and suggests possibilities as to where they came from.

Hell, look at the OPs post, they were more interested in the political side as of the discussion as well. It's "we caught this cartoonishly labeled leftwing person wasn't real!", not "Twitter made it possible for a fake user to affect mass opinion"