Twitter Parody Account @DPRK_News Sparks Some New York Times Fireworks
Another feather in the cap of Popehat
While The New York Times is by no means the only outlet to be fooled by Twitter parody account @DPRK_News, which counts more than 200,000 followers and is operated by members of legal blog popehat.com, some might be tempted to couch this July 4 drama within the context of the newspaper’s planned copy editor cuts. After all, the incident has been ascribed to an “editing error.” To recap:
1) The July 4 parody tweet:
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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