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Twitter suspends clearly marked AOC parody account with 85k followers, igniting conservative outrage

6-5-2019 < RT 34 169 words
 

Twitter, it seems, has no sense of humor. An Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez parody account, clearly marked as such and boasting 85,000 followers, has been banned along with its creator, reportedly for being “fake and misleading.”


Twitter permanently suspended both Mike Morrison’s personal Twitter account and his Ocasio-Cortez parody account @AOCPress without warning, apparently accusing Morrison of violating its policy on fake accounts even though the AOC parody had been clearly marked as a parody in both its account name and its bio.




Morrison’s personal account, which had 50,000 followers, was also suspended, reportedly for “running multiple accounts” – which isn’t actually forbidden, so long as the accounts aren’t used for harassment purposes or spamming.




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