How did you find out that the Strzok tweet was fake?

[LAS14]

How do we defend ourselves against this sort of thing, other than depending on DU members to ferret it out??

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las

[LonePirate]

1. The screen name uses "not" and the profile page says it is a parody account.

Those are enough reasons for anyone to identify the tweet as not coming from the real Peter Strzok.

[janx]

4. To be fair to those who were fooled though,

those two things were added sometime after the tweets were made. The first time I looked at it, they were not present. So the hero who set up that account had second thoughts and added them later.

[LonePirate]

8. The @not was there when the account was created. It was not added after the fact.

[janx]

7. I have to correct myself here.

I don't know if the "@not" was there the first time I looked.

[PoorMonger]

9. Yes. You are wrong there

Originally , just 32 minutes or so after it was posted the account did not say it was parody.

It was first @_peterstrozk

I know because I saw it that way, after it had been liked by others I follow.

[janx]

11. Ahhh, so my initial glance at that account was correct.

The parody part was added, of that I am sure, but also the "@" part was altered. I sometimes have to second guess myself because I want to be thorough about sources.

Thanks.

[janx]

2. First, it wasn't a verified account.

Second, I doubt that an FBI agent would behave that way after just getting fired (especially referring to Trump as a Russian asset),
Third, the account was activated last May with no activity until today,

And Fourth, the "parody" part was added just after those tweets were made.

I didn't notice any of these at first, however.

[LAS14]

6. How do you know if something is "a verified account?"

Please excuse my ignorance. I very rarely look at Twitter or tweet anything.

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las

[emulatorloo]

10. Look for a blue checkmark by the user name

Example:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRickWilson

https://mobile.twitter.com/BarackObama

[LAS14]

12. Huh! How does one acquire such a check? nt

[hlthe2b]

3. He'd never do that, so I immediately thought it parody--"appreciated" nonetheless

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Rocket science. The account name is "notpeterstrzok."