Max Nordau

A Series on Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge

This inauthentic account, made during June 2012 outside the United States, is a repurposed single purpose hate account used heavily on the illegal Op headed up by Florida Governor DeSantis’s spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw.

The account had activity from the get-go after creation, conducted in Spanish with whatever tweets originated with the account wiped.

From a clinical standpoint, the first tweet on May 6, 2012 a month before the account registry, is likely a spelling error directed to a similar account handle as it was the only early English tweet. The account sat parked for a year and a half until December 10, 2013 with all conversations it was tagged in being conducted in Spanish.

Frequent month long gaps are noted.

After May 27, 2017, the account was parked long term.

When it was brought back online, it was now engaged in English only conversations focusing on likely spreading disinformation on COVID and the George Floyd/BLM Protests based on the responding tweets. All of the account’s tweets generated by the account prior to January 26, 2021 had been wiped. If the account was still operated by a Spanish speaker, one would assume more Spanish language conversations as it did solely for the first five years.

The account above calling Max a friend, is also an inauthentic account, minted in 2010 and almost empty with just over 100 tweets as of this writing. The only purpose of the above interaction is give the appearance Max is authentic, despite the secondary account, likely operated by the same individual being clearly fake too.

Pushaw followed the account when it was small, with Elon Musk showing up (rocket) in the outer most band along with recent follow Jeremy Redfern.

The account’s BotSentinel report for phrases.

Like nearly every account that I have looked at so far regarding the attacks on Rebekah Jones, this account was also inauthentic.

The BlueAnon conspiracy is really poorly thought out.

Florida’s COVID data was faulty and intentionally delayed by over two months to give the state the appearance it was doing well when it was either leading or second in the nation for deaths per capita thanks to DeSantis’s propaganda, including this account spreading it. On days last year when I knew looking at local reporting, 400-500 people were dying of COVID in Florida, the state via Pushaw or DeSantis himself put out reassurances backed up by charts saying essentially that a handful of people had died.

Rebekah Jones was right.