The proliferation of imposter accounts on Twitter is providing readers with a lively variety of fake news, from NBA star LeBron James requesting a trade to defense contractor Lockheed Martin to announcing the suspension of weapons sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Some users have described the problem as chaos.
A Twitter handle purporting to be the official account of drugmaker Eli Lilly, for example, tweeted this week, “We are excited to announce that insulin is free now.”
Spoof accounts are even apologizing for the claims of other phony accounts. Another false Eli Lilly account on Twitter, bearing the company’s logo, apologized for the earlier tweet about free insulin and said, “Humalog is now $400.