Twitter suspended a number of fake accounts over the weekend that were using false names to spread pro-Trump propaganda.
In a tweet on Saturday, President Donald Trump expressed thanks to Twitter user @Protrump45, an account that posted exclusively positive memes about the president.
Although “Nicole Mincey” was the name displayed on the Twitter page, it was not the name used to create the account.
Mashable noted that the accounts were suspected of being so-called “bots” used to spread propaganda about Trump.
By Sunday night, Twitter had suspended @Protrump45 and all of the Twitter accounts associated with the Protrump45.com website.
Looks like the fake @protrump45 account @realDonaldTrump thanked has been suspended along with a bunch of other related fake accounts pic.twitter.com/4k26boKl2j — Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) August 7, 2017. »