Fake Wendi Murdoch: No Idea How Twitter Account Got Verified
The Washington Post calls the British man behind the spoof Twitter account @Wendi_Deng “a savvy trickster,” and had he been trying to fool the national news media, that would be true. But he wasn’t. He was simply the beneficiary of corporate incompetence.
For reasons that remain unclear, Twitter verified the account, and a spokesperson for News International confirmed to The Guardian that the account was authentic. But the “savvy trickster” behind @Wendi_Deng hasn’t a clue how it happened.
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