Trump Supporters Impersonate Clinton Campaign With Tweets Advising That Voting From Home Is Possible

November 2, 2016 2016 Election, Crime, Teabagistan

Buzzfeed reports:

Yesterday, Robert McNees, a physics professor at Loyola University, was curiously scanning through the popular alt-right account @TheRickyVaughn when he came across a number of tweets apparently designed to spread misinformation about voting among African-American and Spanish-speaking citizens.

The tweets told voters they could “avoid the line” and “vote from home” via text (which, to be clear, they can’t). They were photoshopped to look as if they’d been created by the Clinton campaign, down to the small-print “Paid for by Hillary for President 2016” disclaimer at the bottom.

McNees told BuzzFeed News he reported the tweet — a clear attempt to impersonate a campaign and disenfranchise voters — to Twitter. This morning, the company told him that the tweets and the account were not in violation of Twitter’s rules.

The photoshopped campaign ads may violate FEC laws. They also appear to be in direct violation of Twitter’s policies, which state in part that “Twitter accounts portraying another person in a confusing or deceptive manner may be permanently suspended.”

It appears that the main creator of the fake messages has now been banned from Twitter, but the images have been widely copied. The banned account is also the same one which Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller copied with yesterday’s C-word attack on Hillary Clinton.



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