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Ben Dover. Mike Oxlong. Dixie Normus.
Yes, tweets from these folks made it to air on CNN last night. It's kinda hilarious.
CNN Duped into Posting Raunchy New Years Eve Prank Tweets
Online trolls got CNN to post New Years Eve tweets from Ben Dover and Dixie Normus.
thedailybeast.com
2:09 PM · Jan 1, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-duped-into-posting-raunchy-new-years-eve-prank-tweets?ref=home
CNN just got Bart Simpsoned.
A Twitter troll, armed with a small collection of fake accounts with ridiculously stupid names, managed to get CNN to fill its screens ticker on New Years Eve with tweets from Ben Dover, Mike Oxlong and Dixie Normus.
Meanwhile, what may be two other trolls got airtime for messages from Anita Blackman and Deeko Giganto.
CNN aired the tweets as scrolling text at the bottom of the screen during its live countdown to the end of 2021, which was hosted by journalist Anderson Cooper and TV personality Andy Cohen.
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ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)These are so obvious, I don't know how they slipped through unless everybody was hammered.
Sympthsical
(8,935 posts)Like, seriously. It's a news station. No one checked?
FakeNoose
(32,340 posts)Every few minutes they had new tweets by the same "person" who just tweeted 10 minutes ago. OK it's a joke but some of the fake tweets were not subtle, they were borderline offensive. I got tired of Andy Cohen and turned them off to watch the fireworks without the politics on NBC (or maybe it was CBS.)
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)But Im old so
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,921 posts)Hugh G. Rection did not rise to the occasion.
MichaelSoE
(1,575 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)as he is being mocked by neighbor Betsy D'Ont.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Tickle
(2,461 posts)Receptionist back in 1976. I was the voice through the whole company. Two calls I got that still haunt me today. Could you page Mike Hunt for extension 316 and the other that wasnt so bad was paging Allen Wrench
This always comes to mind when Im working the automated responses