This looks like a fake account.
His son is shot and he's talking about following you back?
His son is shot and he's asking you to subscribe to his YouTube channel?
Then you go to the YouTube channel, it has zero videos
The account has absolutely no tweets older than 5 hours and has existed since 2017.
This kind of disinformation is pretty typical of Russian propaganda and usually such accounts follow other Russian accounts.
That is not the case here.
I have seen multiple other Russian accounts use the same modus operandi including linking to the exact same YouTube channel.
Remember to exercise extreme diligence when following and retweeting accounts that have no history whatsoever.
In an election year everything is disinformation till proven otherwise.
Two other things:
-the profile picture is a stock photo, plenty of people commenting on my thread I've already done the leg work in that direction.
- "I follow back" seems to be a favorite buzzword used by these propaganda accounts. And they never do.
- Fin
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