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The Hill reports:
New York officials and government offices faced a slew of fake accounts impersonating its official City of New York account, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D). One of the parody accounts impersonating Hochul claimed that she is running as a Republican for the governor’s race, while numerous accounts impersonating Adams — who no longer has a verification check mark — remain on the platform.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted that the impersonated accounts could cause “harm” in the event of an emergency when responding to a user who had tweeted a screenshot of the fake accounts. An account impersonating Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) tweeted that Hemedti, the group’s leader, was killed. The fake account has a blue checkmark while the authentic account does not.
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