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misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months

www.theverge.com

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A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months

www.theverge.com

misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this guy being a total shithead on Twitter before. One sec…

    Edit: yep, catturd2 is a MAGA cultist - https://lemmy.world/comment/6563244

    Edit 2: I took one for the team and checked bluesky catturd2’s profile on Twitter and it looks pretty anti-MAGA; there’s a couple tweets that address: cops hiding their badge numbers (bluesky catturd2 is against this), Twitter being a conservative cesspool, and generally talking shit about the trump family. I wonder if bluesky catturd2 intentionally co-opted the name to troll Twitter catturd2.

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      It’s a podcaster and/or journalist who is not actually catturd2 doing a bit

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        Yeah that makes sense. Pretty amusing.

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      That’s hilarious given the topic of the thread. Identity theft for good?!

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