Social media users duped by tweet about Sunak from account parodying the World Economic Forum
Social media users duped by tweet about Sunak from account parodying the World Economic Forum
(Reuters) - Social media users are sharing a tweet about new UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from an account that parodies the World Economic Forum (WEF), which says: “We always get our man in the end.”
The post (here) has been shared more than 7,800 times.
Replies suggest people believe it was tweeted by the verified WEF account (found at twitter.com/wef), with two users posting separate images about the WEF’s chief executive Klaus Schwab allegedly controlling Sunak (here and here). Another wrote: “RIP ENGLAND” (here).
Screenshots of the tweet have been uploaded to Facebook (here, here and here), where together the posts have been shared dozens of times.
The tweet was originally uploaded by an account called World Ecommunist Forum (twitter.com/EcommunistForum), which says it is: “The international organization for public-private-parody cooperation”. This parodies the WEF’s bio, which says: “The international organization for public private cooperation.”
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Satire. The tweet was posted by a Twitter account that parodies the WEF.
