Someone created an account on Twitter impersonating José Ramón Gómez Besteiro Through it the false loss of life of former minister Elena Salgado was disseminated this Wednesday The Government Delegation in Galicia confirmed shortly after that it’s a ‘pretend’ account
Only just a few hours have handed because the appointment of José Ramón Gómez Besteiro as the brand new authorities delegate in Galicia was introduced. Taking benefit of the pull of the information, somebody has created a ‘pretend’ account on Twitter impersonating him.
This Monday, that false account deceived its greater than 2,000 followers by asserting the loss of life of the previous Galician minister Elena Salgado. She did it in two tweets, one in Spanish and the opposite in Galician. “Very unhappy information. A couple of minutes in the past, Elena Salgado Méndez, ex-minister and nice Galician, handed away,” the publication stated.
A false information that was not solely shared, but in addition obtained a mess of messages of condolences. Among the followers of this account had been journalists and in addition socialist leaders.
The Government Delegation has confirmed that this account is fake. In reality, after phrase unfold of its existence, that account has been deleted.
A brand new work from the ‘king of pretend information’
Everything signifies that behind this deception could be Tommaso Debenedetti. This Italian journalist is devoted to creating accounts with which he pretends to be different individuals or entities to ‘sneak’ into the media the false loss of life of individuals. He already did it with Vargas Llosa or Isabel Allende.
Debenedetti is thought not just for impersonating different individuals on social media, but in addition for posting fabricated interviews.
Once the ‘pretend’ content material has gone viral, the journalist normally denies the hoax. “Fake account created by the Italian journalist Tommaso Debenedetti”, he normally places. This time, he did too.
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