Twitter bans Trump-supporting hoaxster after USA TODAY expose

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: USA Today

Twitter bans Trump-supporting hoaxster after USA TODAY expose
Gus Garcia-Roberts, USA TODAY Published 4:28 p.m. ET Feb. 26, 2019 Updated 5:11 p.m. ET Feb. 26, 2019

Twitter announced that it is permanently suspending Jacob Wohl, a 21-year-old Internet hoaxer and supporter of President Donald Trump, following the publication of a USA TODAY article in which he boasted of using the social media platform to spread lies and disinformation.

In the article published Tuesday morning, (1) Wohl disclosed what he claimed were his plans to create "enormous left-wing properties" including Facebook and Twitter accounts before the 2020 presidential election in order "to steer the left-wing votes in the primaries to what we feel are weaker candidates compared with Trump."

In announcing the suspension Tuesday afternoon, Twitter said in a statement: "The account was suspended for multiple violations of the Twitter Rules, specifically creating and operating fake accounts."

According to Twitter, after Wohl bragged of his intentions to violate its rules against the creation of fake or misleading accounts, the company scrutinized his activity on the platform and found that he already created multiple fake accounts.
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(1) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/26/jacob-wohl-spread-twitter-lies-mueller-rbg-2020-election/2917226002/

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/02/26/jacob-wohl-spread-lies-mueller-rbg-twitter-just-banned-him/2995037002/

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No! That was my favorite comic strip.

Hat tip, Joe.My.God:

Twitter Permanently Bans Trump Cultist Jacob Wohl
February 26, 2019

https://www.joemygod.com/2019/02/twitter-permanently-bans-trump-cultist-jacob-wohl/

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✌🏻Jack Posobiec ✌🏻 🇺🇸 Retweeted

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec

I was just at a hipster coffee shop and everyone was crying because Jacob Wohl's Twitter was suspended

Link to tweet

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Donny Ferguson 🗽 Retweeted

https://twitter.com/DonnyFerguson

if you go to Jacob Wohl's page now, you get his mom's voicemail

Link to tweet

[NewJeffCT]

1. womp womp

Maybe he can go back to working at Sunglass Hut

[Yonnie3]

2. Nostalgia

He was my first block on Twitter.

I just didn't have time for him.

[C Moon]

3. I'm sure we'll be seeing some "Wohls" here, as well, in the coming months.

[orangecrush]

5. steering leftist votes to weaker candidates...

1) Wohl disclosed what he claimed were his plans to create "enormous left-wing properties" including Facebook and Twitter accounts before the 2020 presidential election in order "to steer the left-wing votes in the primaries to what we feel are weaker candidates compared with Trump."

Deja Vu.

[catrose]

4. I wish USA Today would hire proofreaders. It's spelled l-i-a-r, not hoaxster

[msongs]

6. twitter bans someone from spreading misinformation lol that's half its content nt

[Blue Owl]

7. Surefire Incompetence

n/t

[PeeJ52]

8. Not a good day for Jacob. Carolyne Cass confessed to USA Today he put her up to framing Mueller too.

How come he isn't in jail for that anyway?
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/busted-woman-says-trump-supporter-jacob-wohl-tricked-going-along-bogus-mueller-rape-claim/

If Jussie Smollett goes to jail for false reports why not Jacob Wohl????

[jmowreader]

9. I was just in a hipster coffee shop...

...and everyone was looking at their phones asking, "who is this Jacob Wohl, and why should I care?"

[flying-skeleton]

10. TWITTER IS a ZOO of Morons

They should have banned Trump a long time ago for a host of violations. But then, the Shithole is a honeypot of money for them. Twitter has no morals which is why I refuse to use their service.

[not fooled]

19. Yep

The little MAGAt got banned only because of the USA TODAY expose, not because twitter conducted due diligence.

[Aussie105]

23. Twitter says:

Oh bother, we have been caught out, it's all over the SERIOUS media! Better do something about it, suppose! *sigh*

Don't worry, quite a few willing to take his place!

And Twitter? Crickets!

[True Blue American]

25. I am also

Not thrilled with the many retweets I see on the boards. As if they mean something.

[Scurrilous]

11. K&R

[nuxvomica]

12. So digital media Twitter had to read print media to get wise

Interesting.

[irisblue]

13. .

m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) Tweeted:
i feel like jacob wohl getting suspended is something i can drink to https://t.co/WyDIPETznf

Link to tweet

[yaesu]

14. The bottom line is, do your own research, don't believe what you read on any social media outlet

until your own research confirms it.

[True Blue American]

26. Amen!

[47of74]

15. And Matt Gaetz said hold my beer.

[Pepsidog]

16. Haha you spineless Creep.

[Pepsidog]

17. To bad Jacob, you are a traitor like Trump

[BumRushDaShow]

18. "found that he already created multiple fake accounts"

"Multiple"?

He probably has dozens of them to act as bots to spread his distorted vileness.

[Kurt V.]

20. he's 21? at least he has time to get his mind right.

[Initech]

21. I really don't care. Do U?

[riversedge]

22. a thousand copycats will take his place.

[ck4829]

24. K&R