Twitter suspende la cuenta que ayudó a enfurecer a los estudiantes de Covington Catholic MAGA

Twitter dice que han suspendido una cuenta que creen que fue uno de los principales actores en encender la furia de los estudiantes católicos de Covington en las redes sociales

A través de CNN:

Twitter suspended an account on Monday afternoon that helped spread a controversial encounter between a Native American elder and a group of high school students wearing Make America Great Again hats.

The account claimed to belong to a California schoolteacher. Its profile photo was not of a schoolteacher, but of a blogger based in Brazil, CNN Business found. Twitter suspended the account soon after CNN Business asked about it.

The account, with the username @2020fight, was set up in December 2016 and appeared to be the tweets of a woman named Talia living in California. “Teacher & Advocate. Fighting for 2020,” its Twitter bio read. Since the beginning of this year, the account had tweeted on average 130 times a day and had more than 40,000 followers.

Late on Friday, the account posted a minute-long video showing the now-iconic confrontation between a Native American elder and the high school students, with the caption, “This MAGA loser gleefully bothering a Native American protester at the Indigenous Peoples March.”

That version of the video was viewed at least 2.5 million times and was retweeted at least 14,400 times, according to a cached version of the tweet seen by CNN Business.

The video had been posted earlier on Instagram by someone who was at the event, but it was @2020fight’s caption that helped frame the news cycle.

Informan que el editor asistente de Storyful vio que el video iba a la mañana del sábado desde @2020fight, señalando que fue uno de los primeros que vio:

Rob McDonagh, an assistant editor at Storyful, a service that vets content online, was monitoring Twitter activity on Saturday morning and said the @2020fight video was the main version of the incident being shared on social media.

In one indicator of the @2020fight’s video’s virality, multiple newsrooms, including some national American outlets, reached out to the user asking them directly about the video.

McDonagh said he found the account suspicious due to its “high follower count, highly polarized and yet inconsistent political messaging, the unusually high rate of tweets, and the use of someone else’s image in the profile photo.”

Después de que CNN Business consultó a Twitter sobre la cuenta, la borraron:

Twitter’s rules forbid users from creating “fake and misleading accounts,” and shortly after CNN Business asked Twitter about the account, it was suspended.

CNN Business was unable to reach the person, or people, behind the account, to ask if they were indeed a California schoolteacher that chose to use someone else’s picture. Soon after we pointed out on Twitter that the account was using a different woman’s profile picture, the account blocked this reporter.

Esta cuenta anon puede haber sido la culpable, pero siempre habrá culpables. Esto no le quita ninguna responsabilidad a las organizaciones de medios que publicaron este video y narración falsa sin obtener todos los hechos primero.

Y no son solo las grandes compañías de medios de comunicación. Incluso la NRO tenía un huevo en la cara por publicar esto durante el fin de semana. Y John Lott quiere asegurarse de que no sean pasados ​​por alto por su cuenta:

.⁦@JonahNRO⁩, instead of just condemning the media generally for jumping the gun, why not an apology from ⁦@NRO⁩? Rush Limbaugh reported ⁦@NRO⁩ published piece attacking students as doing equivalent of “Pissing on the Cross.” U deleted, but damage already done. pic.twitter.com/YVtp9NXYGV

— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) January 22, 2019

.@JonahNRO, so while you were condemning the media generally for their horrible rush to judgment, @NRO was doing at least as gross of an attack. Sorry, Jonah, I like you, but your outfit should be apologizing. pic.twitter.com/tTCZ0HCdY9

— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) January 22, 2019

Just so everyone know, @JonahNRO Jonah is a senior Editor at @NRO. He even has NRO in his twitter handle. He was going on a national news show bashing the media for their evil coverage of this event. Why completely ignore the behavior of his own publication? Disappointing.

— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) January 22, 2019

I would like to be wrong, but I worry that @NRO’s knee jerk reaction is part of their overall attacks on all things @realDonaldTrump. Editors approved this post on NRO, copy editors edited it. Yet it still made it on to their website.

— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) January 22, 2019