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A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah that makes sense. Pretty amusing.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

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