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Twitter Users Create Havoc by Impersonating Brands
The social media service, which is undergoing changes from its new owner Elon Musk, has descended into a messy swirl of spoof messages and parody accounts. Source
Hoaxes and Pranks
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The Latest High School Prank? Students Sleeping.
Zach Lewis swears he was just resting his eyes. But when a fellow student at Stowe Middle High School in Vermont surreptitiously snapped his picture during English class and shared it with the school’s “sleep […]
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Someone Offered ‘Harvard’ Jobs to Known Women in India. It Was a Scam.
“There was a lovely Harvard shield,” Mr. Roy remembered. “I didn’t have the slightest doubt.” Harvard says it fiercely protects its trademark, employing software to detect new websites that infringe on its brand, but Mr. […]
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Why can’t the social networks stop fake accounts?
Every few months, social media companies say they removed another billion fake accounts. So how did a 21-year-old delivery driver in Pennsylvania impersonate Trump family members on Twitter for nearly a year, eventually fooling the […]
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He Pretended to Be Trump’s Family. Then Trump Fell for It.
Josiah Bruns, an engineer from Goffstown, N.H., donated $100. With his donation, he left a comment: “Uncle Rob Trump asked me too.” Mr. Bruns said in an interview that a QAnon message board had led […]