{"id":416412,"date":"2021-12-03T13:53:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T13:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/?p=108061"},"modified":"2021-12-03T13:53:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T13:53:32","slug":"fake-tweets-with-offensive-racist-language-viral-in-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawals-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/03\/fake-tweets-with-offensive-racist-language-viral-in-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawals-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake tweets with offensive, racist language viral in Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal\u2019s name"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 29, Jack Dorsey stepped down from his role as the CEO of Twitter and was replaced by Indian-origin Parag Agrawal.<\/p>\n

Twitter handle @TruAmericanGal1 shared a screenshot of a tweet purportedly posted by the new Twitter CEO. The screenshot contains a photo of a man with an offensive caption.<\/p>\n

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In addition, another Twitter user amplified the image with the same claim, sharing a second photo as well. The user wrote that these were some old tweets posted by Agrawal wherein he has used racist and offensive language. @SinhaleseSavage\u2019s tweet was liked by over 13,000 handles.<\/p>\n

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Fake tweets<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Agarwal did not post any such tweets. If he had done so, they would have been the subject of widespread media scrutiny. But there are no reports<\/a> to corroborate them. Furthermore, taking a closer look at the viral screenshots, we noticed that the date has been cropped out.<\/p>\n

Replying to @TruAmericanGal1\u2019s tweet, another user shared the original tweet<\/a> which was morphed to create one of the fake tweets. The original tweet was posted by a handle called \u2018@sandeep_bah\u2019, as shown in the side-by-side comparison given below.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, Parag Agrawal is not the person featured in either of the two images.<\/p>\n

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Both the tweets also cannot be located on Agrawal\u2019s Twitter timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Therefore, fake tweets manufactured and shared in Parag Agrawal’s name were believed to be true.<\/p>\n

The post Fake tweets with offensive, racist language viral in Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s name<\/a> appeared first on Alt News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

This post was originally published on Alt News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 29, Jack Dorsey stepped down from his role as the CEO of Twitter and was replaced by Indian-origin Parag Agrawal. Twitter handle @TruAmericanGal1 shared a screenshot of a…<\/p>\n

The post Fake tweets with offensive, racist language viral in Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal\u2019s name<\/a> appeared first on Alt News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416937,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416412\/revisions\/416937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}