Sometimes inauthentic accounts are difficult to spot, but this is not one of those times. @CheiaKeeta (permanent ID 1432532435338629124) has helpfully used the #NewProfilePic hashtag to document a history of stealing multiple people's photos and using them as profile pics.
Although @CheiaKeeta claims to be an ICU nurse in New York, the two "nurse selfies" posted by the account depict two different people, neither of whom appears to work in a New York ICU. (@CheiaKeeta removed name/employer info from the pics in a possible attempt at obfuscation.)
Casting additional doubt on @CheiaKeeta's claims to be a New York ICU nurse is a tweet stating that 33 COVID patients died in @CheiaKeeta's unit on Sept 30, 2021. Since the entirety of NYC experienced 19 COVID deaths on the day in question, this appears to be false.
Another problem: in order to work 15 years as a nurse while not having been born in the 1980s, @CheiaKeeta would've had to have graduated nursing school at age 16 or younger.
The @CheiaKeeta account's use of stolen photos doesn't stop with "selfies" and profile pics. @CheiaKeeta's photo shoot from last year and the alleged photos of @CheiaKeeta's pets are also plagiarized.
Unsurprisingly, both of @CheiaKeeta's alleged Christmas trees are random photos swiped from the Internet.
Since the account is politically focused, it's not surprising that @CheiaKeeta tweets about participating in protests and marches. The evidence of participation is fake, however - for example, this photo @CheiaKeeta allegedly took at a march in 2021 is actually from 2017.
Additionally, it is extremely unlikely that @CheiaKeeta's father is both a judge and 30-year FBI veteran. Also, prosecutors don't generally bring their own children with them to the courtroom for shits and giggles.
Also in the "extremely unlikely" department, @CheiaKeeta supposedly received a COVID vaccine booster in September, again in October, and yet again in November.
Despite the obvious inauthenticity of many aspects of the @CheiaKeeta account, it is being promoted frequently on follow lists - mostly on the political left, but also here and there on the right.
Although there exists ample reason to suspect certain members of Congress of participation in/foreknowledge of the January 6th insurrection, Ted Cruz and Joe Manchin are not among them. Despite this, @CheiaKeeta has multiple tweets alleging or insinuating their involvement.
One more thing: this does not appear to be the first attempt to create this fake persona. A similar-looking "nurse" account named @cheecierom (now suspended) helped push the "Bill Barr tried to visit Ghislaine Maxwell in jail" nonsense in July 2020.
In a possibly interesting coincidence, the first account to tweet the July 2020 Maxwell/Barr disinformation (@Baligubadle1, presently protected) is the first smaller account (fewer than 100,000 followers) that @CheiaKeeta followed.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Conspirador Norteño

Conspirador Norteño Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @conspirator0

10 Dec
I appreciate everyone who tried to bring this thread about the @TrackerTrial account to the attention of @krystalball. Unfortunately, she and @esaagar opted to spin its suspension as a conspiracy involving Twitter's new CEO rather than reporting on facts:
Seriously, I can't get over how utterly terrible the "reporting" in that video is. There are two minutes or so of rambling about "bots" that bears no relation to anything even remotely real about bots.
This suspension in particular has highlighted that many people seem to believe *all* Twitter suspensions are unjustified. While Twitter does get things wrong, this doesn't mean all suspensions are bogus and journalists shouldn't be lazily repeating gossip without checking facts.
Read 4 tweets
5 Dec
There are multiple actual journalists reporting on this event, but for some reason everyone is sharing this tweet from an account made last month with an AI-generated face pic as its avatar.

Please be cautious about helping potentially inauthentic accounts build an audience.
Note that the tweet in question was posted via the "Twitter Web App" rather than one of the Twitter smartphone apps, meaning it was likely tweeted from a computer rather than the cell phone of someone on the scene. (TLDR, it's probably plagiarized from whoever took the video.)
Read 8 tweets
28 Nov
Would you buy a used Twitter account for $900? At first glance, @Droopy735 (permanent ID 84861619) looks like a well-established, popular account - it's over a decade old and has over 100 thousand followers, after all. What's not to like? (As it turns out, a lot.)
Despite being created in 2009, @Droopy735 gained almost all of its 104K followers in November 2021, and none of these newly-created followers has ever liked a tweet.
The swarm of newly-created accounts that followed @Droopy735 are part of a fake follower botnet consisting of (at least) 197134 accounts, all created in November 2021. None has ever tweeted or liked a tweet, and there are definite patterns in the account names.
Read 8 tweets
22 Nov
Ghislaine Maxwell's trial begins next week, and a Twitter account named @TrackerTrial (ID 1327007938821709826) has gone viral with a false claim that major media is not covering the case (which it of course wants everyone to follow on its Substack instead).

cc: @ZellaQuixote Image
The claim that major media organizations are ignoring the Maxwell trial is easily refuted with a simple Google search, which reveals that AP, The New York Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Reuters, The New York Post, and CNN (among others) have all covered the trial within the last week. Image
Interestingly, despite having been created back in November 2020, @TrackerTrial's first tweet is from November 2021, a year later. Things are not quite as they seem, however. . . Image
Read 5 tweets
21 Nov
The #metaverse isn't here yet, but the crypto spam accounts mentioning it in identical tweets sure are. #SundaySpam

cc: @ZellaQuixote
The spammy #metaverse tweets are from a network consisting of (at least) 741 accounts with handles and display names consisting of lowercase letters and random numbers, created in batches from August to November 2021.
These accounts amplify a variety of large cryptocurrency/blockchain accounts via a combination of quote tweets, replies, and retweets. The quote tweets and replies are frequently duplicated verbatim by dozens of accounts in the network.
Read 5 tweets
15 Nov
Follow order by creation date scatter plots can reveal interesting things about the history of popular Twitter accounts. Case in point: almost all of @maureen_bannon's first few thousand followers are accounts that primarily tweet in Chinese.

cc: @ZellaQuixote Image
These early Chinese-language followers all followed @maureen_bannon over a relatively short span of time: specifically, the first two weeks of October 2020, roughly a month prior to the 2020 US Presidential election. Image
Although the Chinese-language accounts do not show obvious signs of being automated or fake, they differ from @maureen_bannon's English-language followers in one key way: they frequently link Guo Wengui/Steve Bannon propaganda sites GNews and GTV. Image
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(