The account, which largely reflected old tropes from the QAnon conspiracy theory, was emblematic of a bigger trend. ” Facebook and Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A Telegram spokesperson told CNN, “Telegram monitors reports and warns users about fraudulent accounts in clear-cut cases like the one you pointed out. Tuesday afternoon the account was marked as a “scam” with the message, “Warning: Many users reported this account as a scam or a fake account.” The account has since shed some followers, and many of the messages have been removed. Hyten told CNN Tuesday morning that the account is “an absolute fake” and added the Pentagon was “actively working” to get it taken down. Additionally, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone told CNN that Facebook had started blocking the link to the Telegram account as of early Wednesday morning.Ī spokesperson for Gen. After CNN asked about the people sharing links to and promoting the Telegram channel on its platform, Twitter said it was “taking action on accounts sharing it” and would prevent the link from being tweeted further. ET it posted an ominous picture of soldiers in uniform behind a fence in Washington DC with the caption “Stay in your homes.”īy Tuesday afternoon, the account had almost 220,000 followers - likely helped by the fact that it was being widely and actively discussed and promoted on other platforms including Twitter and Facebook. Then, 20 minutes later: “Last hours.” It continued on like this. “They can no longer hide in the shadows,” it added half an hour later.
“Nothing can stop this,” the account said in a message that had been seen by at least 185,000 people as of Tuesday morning. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was telling them that the moment they’d been waiting for, the moment Trump would finally act and use the military to crush his enemies, was coming.
A Telegram account falsely purporting to be run by Gen. Sometime Monday, some of the remaining dead-enders convinced that President Trump will remain in office for at least the next four years got a sign.
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