Twitter suspends fake accounts posing as Black Trump supporters

Twitter has disabled several accounts posing as Black supporters of US President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign for breaking its rules against platform manipulation.

According to a report in The Washington Post on Wednesday, Clemson University social media researcher Darren Linvill tracked and found more than two dozen similar accounts, many of them using identical language in their tweets.

“Several had tens of thousands of followers and all but one have now been suspended,” the report said.

The network of more than two dozen similar accounts generated more than 265,000 retweets or other amplifying “mentions” on Twitter.

Many of the accounts used profile pictures of Black men taken from news reports or other sources.