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Meet @ZacconeMaryann, yet another Twitter account using a photograph that in all likelihood does not depict the owner of the account. The plagiarized aspects go far beyond the photo with this one, though.
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First off, @ZacconeMaryann's tweet schedule appears to be organic, although we will note this does not preclude the possibility of well-disguised automation. Based on hashtags and terms used, this could be a run-of-the-mill #resistance account. . .
Things start getting complicated when one looks at all the different states that @ZacconeMaryann apparently lives in. Normally at this point in thread we'd describe these things as contradictions that demonstrate that the account is acting deceptively. However. . .
A significant portion of @ZacconeMaryann's tweets have been posted previously by other accounts. This includes the majority of the "I live in <X> location" examples featured in the previous tweet. #Plagiarism
We found no shortage of examples of duplicated tweets (entities such as images and emoji are cloned as well). Can we find a pattern in what @ZacconeMaryann plagiarizes?
Yes. Most of @ZacconeMaryann's tweets are replies to @TheRickyDavila. Of 314 replies in the past 10 days, 178 (56.7%) are exact copies of someone else's tweet, 169 of which (53.8%) are clones of replies to whatever Davila retweeted in the tweet @ZacconeMaryann is replying to.
It's likely that even more of @ZacconeMaryann's tweets are duplicates; some have additional text or emoji added, which our test wouldn't have caught, and many are plagiarized from linked news articles rather than tweets.
