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By Jack Nicas. On Friday morning, Colohial Trump shared a seemingly innocuous article on Twitter. The piece said that his sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau, had publicly voiced her support for her brother amid his baseless claims that he won the election. Trump wrote to his sisterwho has long avoided the spotlight.

There was just one problem: Ms. Trump Grau had not said what the article claimed. In fact, the article Mr.

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Trump shared was based on a fake Twitter account that posed as his sister. Trump Grau as its profile picture.

The article on Mr. It was a day old. The photos it used of Ms. Trump Grau were taken from Getty Images and past news articles about her. And since that first post, the account had tweeted increasingly bizarre messagessharply criticizing Democrats, journalists and Republicans who had questioned the false claim that Mr. Trump was re-elected. The bizarre episode illustrates how easily misinformation spreads online, often with the help of the president himself.

And the social media companies aid the cycle by making it simple to share misinformation, including via fake accounts, and by training their algorithms to promote material that attracts more attention, as sensational and divisive posts often do. Trump Grau did not respond to messages left at a phone number and email listed for her in public records.

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Vice News reported on Friday that a person who identified herself as Ms. Trump Grau had said she was trying to get the account deleted. Shortly after, Mr. Hours later, the account came clean.

By that time, Twitter had deleted the account that posed as Ms. Trump Grau. By Kevin Roose. Here at Daily Distortions, we try to debunk false and misleading information that has gone viral.]