A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along The Erica Marsh account shows how ‘rage baiting’ remains a powerful way to win attention and score political points By Drew Harwell @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/04/twitter-erica-marsh-suspended/ #ericamarsh #twitter #disinformation #ragebait
@jackhutton @washingtonpost were there really people who didn't know that?
@julesette @jackhutton @washingtonpost I got down to that first quoted tweet in the text and was like "yep, that's bait", but seems like 130 000 bots and twitterers really wanted to believe it enough to hit that follow button.