I am deleting my Twitter account today. Why? The “student in the MAGA hat video” was the tipping point for me. The source of the video was a “schoolteacher”. This industrious “schoolteacher” tweeted 130 times a day; had 40,000 followers and got 2.5 mm views of the video. Guess what?!

The schoolteacher is actually a blogger in Brazil who’s video post hijacked CNN this weekend. Sure. CNN is to blame for picking it up and not asking “is this really news?” but the post got 2.5 million views! According to a study in 2018 by the Pew research center – 66% of all links sent out are “Bot” generated. My question – how many of those views driving videos viral are “Bots” and “fake” people.

If a fake teacher can spawn a national outrage, can I really trust anything on Twitter? I’m voting by deleting my account.