The curious case of ‘Nicole Mincey,’ the Trump fan who may actually be a Russian bot

The following article by Abby Phillip was posted on the Washington Post website August 7, 2017:

Credit: Sarah Wasko,/ Media Matters

Early Saturday morning, President Trump tweeted his gratitude to a social-media super-fan, ­Nicole Mincey, magnifying her praise of him to his 35 million followers.

Here’s the problem: There is no evidence the Twitter feed belongs to someone named Nicole Mincey. And the account, according to experts, bears a lot of signs of a Russia-backed disinformation campaign.

On Sunday, Twitter suspended the Mincey account, known as @ProTrump45, after several other users revealed that it was probably a fake, created to amplify pro-Trump content. Continue reading “The curious case of ‘Nicole Mincey,’ the Trump fan who may actually be a Russian bot”