Fraudulent Twitter account claims to be Shireen Abu Akleh’s brother
By France24
22 May 2022 |
2:15 pm
A phony account on Twitter, with at least four different identities since February, claims to be the brother of slain Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. In this edition of Truth or Fake, we explain how we uncovered this fake Twitter account with more than 35,000 followers.
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