Andrew Anglin of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer announced the misinformation campaign on his website, calling on readers to create fake accounts on the platform.
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He added that the posts need to be “indistinguishable” from actual Twitter accounts belonging to black people. According to the post, there are about 1,000 fake accounts already in existence.
The secondary goal, the article notes, is to "create a state of chaos on twitter, among the black twitter population, by sowing distrust and suspicion, causing blacks to panic."
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The article that's been making the rounds as a sort of troll starter kit indicates that, to be successful, the fake accounts must use relatively generic names, take images off Google and flip them to avoid reverse-image searches and join in on conversations to build up a following. Once that has happened, they can start joining more serious debates on topics like race, feminism and transgender rights and "bring the entire system to its knees."
Lightning-Boy on October 13rd, 2020 at 03:23 UTC »
Isn’t there subreddit about people pretending to be black online so they can spread their ideas?
ozamatazbuckshank11 on October 13rd, 2020 at 03:37 UTC »
Some of them post in here, too. Gotta keep our eyes peeled...
TonyBagels on October 13rd, 2020 at 04:06 UTC »
Reminder: Neo-Nazis actively use fake black-Twitter accounts to spread misinformation, confusion, and division.
From 2016:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/white-supremacists-twitter-fake-black-people-alt-right-anti-hate-policy-internet-trolls-a7423881.html
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From 2017:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/03/21/520522240/the-emergence-of-the-white-troll-behind-a-black-face
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