Twitter user Alex Leo, a start-up expert who's worked at a number of news outlets, recently put together a massive Twitter thread featuring what she believed to be fake accounts of Trump supporters pretending to be black people.
“I'm gonna do a big thread of Trump fans on Twitter pretending to be black folks and hot women," Leo wrote Tuesday. "Send me examples if you have them!”
I'm gonna do a big thread of Trump fans on twitter pretending to be black folks and hot women. Send me examples if you have them!
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
A number of user replied to her call, and Leo soon presented a number of accounts for the world to take a look at.
“Meet racist s**t @gaius_julius44 who retweets Faith Goldy and is pretending to be @ChrisEubank” Leo wrote in her first tweet.
meet racist shit @gaius_julius44 who retweets Faith Goldy and is pretending to be @ChrisEubank
pic.twitter.com/GNvCkhAY20— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
The tweet featured a screenshot of the account belonging to @gaius_julius44. The account was named “Deplorable Black Man;” a second screenshot shows the account's avatar is a photo of a man named “Chris Eubank.”
Keeping her promise to expose dubious accounts masquerading as "hot women," Leo tweeted about the Maga Model account, which she found used a photo of model Anna Nyström for its avatar.
meet @maga_model a likely crusty old dude pretending to be Swedish model Anna Nyström pic.twitter.com/4MKEvuhruM
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
More than a dozen other accounts followed, all of them featuring stock images or photos of Black celebrities as profile photos:
. @Anders_MAGA is pretending to be a black person on twitter using an "African-American spy" stock photo pic.twitter.com/PWuwHnlECB
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
. @BlackMagalove is pretending to be Eazy-E (RIP) pic.twitter.com/2Jq2A1J5QF
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
"Elaina #MAGA ???????? ???????? ❌" aka @Suntan48 is pretending to be a ring model https://t.co/EbPQfttcJc
pic.twitter.com/JAejL1FhyT— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
. @BootGena is pretending to be this model pic.twitter.com/jYfGAIA7ci
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
This male model seems to be a particular favorite of the MAGA bot crowd. pic.twitter.com/HwxDIxIDWS
— Wallace Ritchie (@WallaceRitchie) January 1, 2019
And another https://t.co/zpQQJ8HVEP
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
An oldie but a goodie https://t.co/MPRuhWohHO
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
"Andy Carlson" aka @clintonscam is pretending to be "Old African American man portrait" pic.twitter.com/tiG68tslKC
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
. @theblacks4Trump (lol at "the blacks") is pretending to be Democrat Lawrence Gilder pic.twitter.com/IgtAgcYcR6
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 1, 2019
Leo tweeted Wednesday that Twitter had removed all of the accounts she'd flagged.
“Holy crap, guys. Twitter booted them all,” Leo wrote in a tweet that featured screenshots of the accounts she'd featured showing them as suspended.
Holy crap, guys. Twitter booted them all pic.twitter.com/AyHQRAQpFH
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 2, 2019
Twitter has not issued any comment on the accounts.
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