{"id":4580,"date":"2023-09-03T19:19:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/do-you-want-to-be-a-news-source-just-change-your-account-name"},"modified":"2023-09-03T19:19:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T19:19:36","slug":"do-you-want-to-be-a-news-source-just-change-your-account-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/do-you-want-to-be-a-news-source-just-change-your-account-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want to be a news source? Just change your account name"},"content":{"rendered":"

when X\/Twitter accounts are renamed, their permanent ID number remains the same, allowing them to be trackedBogus “news” accounts are a dime a dozen on social media platforms such as X\/Twitter. Often, the people who run these accounts elect to rename and redecorate an existing account rather than creating a new one. Newly-created accounts are often viewed with suspicion, while an account that has been around for a few months or years is more likely to be accepted as legitimate at first glance, especially if it has a large number of followers. Sometimes accounts of this sort function as general news aggregators (often plagiarizing material from actual journalists), while others focus on a specific topic or event. This article covers a few examples of renamed “news” accounts that have popped up on X\/Twitter over the last few years.“all major media outlets are silent!” cried the account that repeatedly plagiarized various media outletsIn late 2021, a Twitter account by the name of @TrackerTrial rapidly accumulated hundreds of thousands of followers by claiming to cover the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, which the operator of the account claimed “all major media outlets” were “silent” on. In reality, major media outlets published a variety of stories on the trial, and the @TrackerTrial account’s “coverage” of the trial was largely plagiarized from the social media feeds of journalists who were actually present in the courtroom.you’ll be shocked to learn that this account has been repeatedly renamed and once used a stolen photoThe @TrackerTrial account was created…Do you want to be a news source? Just change your account name<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

when X\/Twitter accounts are renamed, their permanent ID number remains the same, allowing them to be trackedBogus “news” accounts are a dime a dozen on social media platforms such as… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[701,300,2733,87,2019,1349,4305,12,3042,295,507,638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}