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Re:July 15 Twitter Attacks by AnimalMuppet on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:12PM (#23872847)
[Me dons tinfoil hat.]

It's a false flag operation. Trump realized that his tweets have become a political liability, so he had this done so that he can claim that someone hacked his account and posted all this weird stuff on it.

[Me takes off tinfoil hat.]

More seriously, what would the point be? Stock price manipulation? Making users think about moving to another platform? Political? International espionage?

[Edit: Since everyone seems to have missed it, the part inside the "tinfoil hat" blocks was not intended to be taken seriously. I expected it to be interpreted as a /s, but apparently it was not.]

Re:July 15 Twitter Attacks by nurettin on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:24PM (#23873005)
That hat appears to have lingering effects.
Re:July 15 Twitter Attacks by yetanta on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:29PM (#23873091)
Its cheap tin foil it got in their hair
Re:July 15 Twitter Attacks by applecrazy on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:44PM (#23873283)
> he had this done so that he can claim that someone hacked his account

This is false for a number of reasons. After Trump’s Twitter was deleted briefly by a rogue contractor, they placed safeguards on his account to ensure that it never happened again.(1) As such, he was not affected by the hack.

(1): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/technology/trump-twitter-...