Twitter Reportedly Shutters GOP Account That Pretended To Represent Democratic Candidate

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

01/31/2020 09:14 pm ET

The fake Twitter account began to turn on New Hampshire hopeful Dan Feltes just weeks before the primary, The Wall Street Journal reported.

By Mary Papenfuss

Twitter has shut down an account run by New Hampshire’s Republican Party that purported to represent a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The fake account demonstrates the kind of challenges social media companies will increasingly be confronted with this election season as they’re faced with deception — and cracking down on it.

The deceptive account in this case purported to represent candidate Dan Feltes and featured a photo similar to the one used on his campaign website, according to the Journal. On Wednesday, just two weeks before the gubernatorial primary, the account started to turn on the candidate.

The state’s Democratic Party reported the fake account to Twitter, and the account was permanently suspended Thursday for violating the company’s policy against impersonation.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrat-dan-feltes-fake-twitter-account-new-hampshire_n_5e34c67cc5b6f26233295f16

[yaesu]

1. The only way repukes play is through deceit, lie, cheat & steal their way into office. nt

[Lock him up.]

2. How about if these Russiablicans do the same on F*ckbook?

Instagram? Linkedlin? Tinder???

[TryLogic]

3. Fraud

And back in DC, Adam Schiff should sue Trump and some other Republicans for slander... and thereby empty their bank accounts.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. After potUS defence in Senate, GOP says it's not a crime if we believe it is needed to get elected.

[Turbineguy]

5. Rat fucking.

An fine old republican tradition.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. There are shades of gray, untruths, lies, outright lies, slanderous lies, and deception

This one was WAY over, wherever you want to draw the line. Impersonation and outright fraud should be prosecutable, even in politics.

[paleotn]

7. Republicans being Republicans...

It's in their DNA.

[SharonClark]

8. They can't blame it on some rogue supporter.

From the top down, they're all criminals and cons.

[paleotn]

9. Yep. At best they're accessories...

to the premeditated murder of the US Constitution.

[MissMillie]

10. The Republicans in United States Senate just told Americans

that we can't remove corrupt people, that we need to use elections to do that.

They said that because they're rigging the elections.

[andym]

11. Like Nixon's dirty tricksters in NH planting a false letter attributed to Muskie in 1972.

The new GOP same as the old GOP.