Edit: Update on this story. Nytti and Rick Carufel’s Twitter accounts were deleted as a result of this falsification. If you click on the links, you will get a message saying that the page doesn’t exist.
**************************************************************************************
Well, it appears that bullies (also known as SJWs) are at it again, but instead of trying to smear us, they are attempting to smear Anne Rice by creating fake tweets:
We know this is fake for two reasons. One is that Anne never participates in Twitter conversations. The only time she uses Twitter is to share her Facebook posts and to retweet her sons tweets that talk about his activities. That’s it. That’s the only time she uses Twitter. The second reason we know this is a fake is because Ralph contacted us via Twitter :
Edit: More reasons we know the tweet was fake.
4) There is no web cache of it, nor archive.
So, it’s obviously fake.
Keep it up, bullies. You guys just keep digging yourselves in deeper and deeper.
Thank you very much for clarifying this. I had no idea one could create a fake tweet. This is frightening. I appreciate the work of those who investigated this and I appreciate very much your article clarifying that I never made this tweet. I support you in the work you do.
GG is run by bloodhounds (no vampire-related pun intended) 😉
My friend has a bloodhound. They’re good dogs. 😉
Anne,
First, I like to say its great how much you have taken a stand against these people and your work has helped get my wife through many tough times in her life and she is a huge fan.
I just want to let you know that these people will go to any length to libel and slander your good name as they believe the ends justifies the means. They have cause people to lose their jobs and as you know now, have caused many good authors from advancing their careers, even now since the first post on Harper attacking you these people are trying to bad mouth the site and also mislead any thoughts on what the GG movement is as well. Just keep in mind many of us are here to stand watch against the insanity of these people.
v/r
Lord Nurgle
It’s actually surprisingly easy, you don’t even need to obey character limits for Twitter. For most web pages, faking text for screenshots is as easy as printing a note and saying someone else typed it (and people who know computers are as likely to believe it).
On Firefox and derivatives (Palemoon ect.) just highlight the text you want to change, right click on it and click the little arrow next to the highlighted text, double click the text you want to change and just type what you want. (here’s some pictures http://a.pomf.se/xqunss.png )
The changes you made will only be visible to you, and will be removed once you referesh the page, but it’s enough to screenshot them and fool the less tech literate.
Unfortunately it’s very easy to fake almost anything on the web as long as you control the channel it’s presented through. This is why I generally don’t spread anything as fact I haven’t seen the original of, unless I can confirm it through other means.
Snapshot sites like archive.is or the Wayback Machine are useful because they can act as witnesses that copy the content directly from the source and don’t allow manipulation. In this case it also shows that the user uploaded the fake tweet as image directly from their computer: http://i.imgur.com/zfeq701.png
(Note: The element is weakly colored because it’s marked as hidden by Twitter (since the image is embedded below), but it’s still in the source code archived at https://archive.is/wfATJ . The image link redirects to the tweet it was attached to, as can be seen at https://archive.is/vWfg9 . I’m fairly certain this happens only with direct uploads by the user making that tweet but I’m only ~99% sure about this.)
Wait a minute. Karlyn P retweeted it almost immediately. Isn’t she one of the bullies, STGRB?
I hear she’s sneaky and does things like this.
The account that posted it is sock puppet account using a stock photo. Clearly a manufactured account and a manufactured tweet.
http://imgur.com/p3uXtX6
http://imgur.com/slDUklR
What is interesting about the tweet is this…the only response it received was from the one person claiming to have filed a lawsuit against Ms. Rice and also claiming that this “tweet” would be used as evidence against her in that lawsuit.
http://imgur.com/RukH0WT
Any law student will tell you that this tweet will never see the inside of a courtroom. It can’t be authenticated. And if it was manufactured by Mr. Carufel in an attempt to falsify evidence…I’m pretty sure that won’t go over well.
Thank you for this
Isn’t that image of Nytti Göran Persson (Former Swedish Prime Minister)?
I just read the update that the accounts were deleted. Not to worry. I at least saved the NYTTI account in full.
http://imgur.com/D8mC6pk
Have a lovely day all!
That’s low.
Take Ralph with a Morton’s Factory of salt. Not saying he’s being untruthful here but know that this is a guy who got decided to fight shit journalists by doing the shittiest journalism one can imagine.
We aren’t questioning Ralph here because his testimony jives with what we know about Anne and what we know about this tweet. It’s obvious that it’s fake.
Well Ralph seems to be telling the truth here. I’m just saying that in these stupid internet slapfights there’r people you look at and think ‘why did they have to pick my side,’ and then there’s Ralph.
I personally like Ralph’s journalism. I think he can be very crude, yeah, but so can Bill Maher.
Ralph is good people.
Ralph isn’t claiming to be a journalist and to quote his own words ” I run a muckraking blog”. Funny thing though is he actually links to sources as proof alot more than the so called professional.
Ralph is many things: muckraker, troll, asshole. But a liar he never has been.
This low down behavior is as repulsive as a pregnant roach. The person who did this is obsessive, stalker-indicative, and delusional of their level of intelligence.
I think it’s interesting to note that both the account and Rick Carufel’s is gone from Twitter now. Not sure when the sock puppet account was deleted, but the fact that both have disappeared from the Twittersphere is pretty telling in and of itself. Especially when you know it’s most likely because Carufel was caught in a lie and ran off with his tail between his legs.
Thanks for letting us know. We’ll add this to the top of the post.
Yesterday he was demanding that people calling him out on his lies prove that Anne Rice didn’t post that tweet. Now he’s trying to say Kevin created the account, falsified the tweet, all in some attempt to blame it on him.
Posted today, after his account and ended up going down off Twitter.
Normally I don’t bother looking into stuff like this, I have better things to do with my time. But I found out last night that he has a Wattpad account and considering how nuts this guy seems I thought it’d be in my best interest to find out more about him and what’s going on. He doesn’t seem like the most stable person, but then most of these trolls usually lean that way. Anyone who might have a Wattpad account should probably be aware that he’s on there. He doesn’t seem especially active, but people interested in avoiding him on any and all social media should know he’s there.
Chain gang bullies strike again! Do they not have any morals whatsoever? What a bunch of pathetic losers!!!
Please avoid using the term “SJWs” guys. A lot of the left-leaning sites like the Guardian will very likely just refuse to link to your site if they see it.
It’s a very divisive term with a lot of people on the left at the moment.
The term “SJW” is firmly established internet lingo by now. Everyone (who follows things) knows what it means and what kind of ugly person it depicts. BTW, the Guardian is FIRMLY in the cultural marxist camp, so don’t expect any sympathies from them any time soon.
I disagree that it’s firmly established. It’s a term that’s used by certain groups. But not others. I know quite a few people who will ignore everything you say if you use that term and yet aren’t themselves SJWs, they’re just their ignorant enablers. Those are the people you really wanna avoid alienating.
As for the Guardian. They’re kinda half cultural marxist and half rational liberalism. They do still publish people who are critical of social justice and political correctness occasionally.
But they’d already linked to this site! That’s my point. You want as many people to see this stuff as possible (I’d hope). So it’s best to avoid alienating any of them.