North Korea Denies Using Twitter, Facebook & YouTube

Last week, bloggers, newspapers and other media outlets around the globe were duped into believing that North Korea had opened their own Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts to spread propaganda through social media. According to new information released today by Forbes, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not using any of these networks. Rather, the accounts are being run by government supporters living abroad. These supporters seem to be doing a pretty good job though, as they had most of the online world believing that they were the North Korean government.

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