Left-wing provocateurs start Twitter hoax with doctored media targeting Bloomberg's campaign

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Twitter user Nick Ciarelli shared a video Thursday purporting to show supporters of the Mike Bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign performing a special group dance. The dance was widely mocked, inducing comparisons to a similar dance from Pete Buttigieg supporters.

The problem: it was fake. Ciarelli, a left-wing provocateur, had staged the video and shared it in an attempt to discredit Bloomberg's campaign.

The official Bloomberg campaign account tweeted that they had nothing to do with Ciarelli. But he went further with the hoax, pretending that he was an intern and being fired. He shared a doctored image, falsely stating that campaign management had paid him to hire actors for the dance. The sender of the email was Brad Evans, another provocateur, who joined in with the false allegations by pretending to be an intern who was quitting in protest.

The architects of this hoax succeeded in getting a DropOutBloomberg hashtag trending, and duped many users into believing their story. This in turn has sparked worries about the extent to which disinformation can be weaponized in political campaigns - especially in the context of Russian interference. Indeed, a CrowdStrike analysis has shown that the majority of accounts using the DropOutBloomberg hashtag either belong or have been linked to the Russian government, but whether Ciarelli and Evans are the orchestrators of this geopolitical plot or just unwitting pawns is unknown.

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