Suspicious.
This CNN article 'seems' like a CYA cover-story (damage control) after the immediate backlash of Patriots to the (Social Media/MSM - False Narrative Attack) on the Covington Catholic School - MAGA hat / March For Life students.
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(CNN - Tue January 22, 2019)
Twitter suspends account that helped ignite controversy over viral encounter.
New York (CNN Business) Twitter suspended an account on Monday afternoon that helped spread a controversial encounter between a Native American elder and a group of high school students wearing Make America Great Again hats.
The account claimed to belong to a California schoolteacher. Its profile photo was not of a schoolteacher, but of a blogger based in Brazil, CNN Business found. Twitter suspended the account soon after CNN Business asked about it.
The account, with the username @2020fight, was set up in December 2016 and appeared to be the tweets of a woman named Talia living in California. "Teacher & Advocate. Fighting for 2020," its Twitter bio read. Since the beginning of this year, the account had tweeted on average 130 times a day and had more than 40,000 followers.
>The video shared by @2020fight did not show what preceded the confrontation between the Native American elder and the high school students.
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Rob McDonagh, an assistant editor at Storyful, a service that vets content online, was monitoring Twitter activity on Saturday morning and said the @2020fight video was the main version of the incident being shared on social media.
In one indicator of the @2020fight's video's virality, multiple newsrooms, including some national American outlets, reached out to the user asking them directly about the video.
McDonagh said he found the account suspicious due to its "high follower count, highly polarized and yet inconsistent political messaging, the unusually high rate of tweets, and the use of someone else's image in the profile photo."
Molly McKew, an information warfare researcher who saw the tweet and shared it herself on Saturday, said she later realized that a network of anonymous accounts were working to amplify the video.
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(Notice)
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Earlier mentioned = Blogger photo from Brazil.
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"…a network of anonymous accounts…"
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Notice at the end of article focus is [Diverted] to = [BAD ACTORS]
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Brazil + [Bad actors] + "Anonymous Accounts"/Bots
→ Of course not @Jack or [clowns]. ←
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Speaking about the nature of fake accounts on social media, McKew told CNN Business, "This is the new landscape: where [bad actors] monitor us and appropriate content that fits their needs. They know how to get it where they need to go so it amplifies naturally. And at this point, we are all conditioned to react and engage or deny in specific ways. And we all did."
Twitter's rules forbid users from creating "fake and misleading accounts," and shortly after CNN Business asked Twitter about the account, it was suspended.
A spokesperson for Twitter told CNN Business, "Deliberate attempts to manipulate the public conversation on Twitter by using misleading account information is a violation of the Twitter Rules."
CNN Business was unable to reach the person, or people, behind the account, to ask if they were indeed a California schoolteacher that chose to use someone else's picture. Soon after we pointed out on Twitter that the account was using a different woman's profile picture, the account blocked this reporter.
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[DS] → Damage Control Story.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/21/tech/twitter-suspends-account-native-american-maga-teens/index.html?__twitter_impression=true