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It's currently a 11 minute old comment, for what it's worth. HN doesn't have the traffic of something like Reddit, it takes a bit longer to change. But I'm not

It's currently a 11 minute old comment, for what it's worth. HN doesn't have the traffic of something like Reddit, it takes a bit longer to change. But I'm not sure the account is a parody - it's certainly very trolly, but it does seem to be this person's real account based on LinkedIn, her Instagram, her website www.anamostarac.com, and others. Seems like a real person and their real account but according to other information not a Google employee. Oh and of course she's got a blue check which is a 100% guarantee that it's not an impersonator. /s

Aurornis 3y ago
> But I'm not sure the account is a parody The content is very clearly parody. Not only this Tweet, but other Tweets. It doesn’t matter if it’s a real person or not, the content is obviously parody. It’s alarming that such obvious satire/parody is not only going undetected, but that people are continuing to debate it after it has been pointed out to be obvious parody content. Does not bode well for the future of online information wars when something this simple is generating so much debate. The comment doesn’t even offer an excuse, it’s a joke about circulating private company content with government officials of another country. Even if you take it to be true, it’s not even an alternate explanation! I’m perplexed that this is causing so much confusion among this comment section.
- zettabomb 3y ago
  To me, a parody account would have to be a different person than claimed, which I think is incorrect. Satire, yes for sure. I am not arguing that this account is serious in any way. As far as detecting it, well American politicans at this point are a caricature of themselves and have made it much more difficult. I don't like it either.
  - Aurornis 3y ago
    You already concluded the person does not work for Google. The account claims to be a person working for Google and speaking as a Google VP. Therefore, it’s a parody account. The fact that a person by that real name exists does not change that fact.

Aurornis 3y ago

> But I'm not sure the account is a parody The content is very clearly parody. Not only this Tweet, but other Tweets. It doesn’t matter if it’s a real person or not, the content is obviously parody. It’s alarming that such obvious satire/parody is not only going undetected, but that people are continuing to debate it after it has been pointed out to be obvious parody content. Does not bode well for the future of online information wars when something this simple is generating so much debate. The comment doesn’t even offer an excuse, it’s a joke about circulating private company content with government officials of another country. Even if you take it to be true, it’s not even an alternate explanation! I’m perplexed that this is causing so much confusion among this comment section.

zettabomb 3y ago
To me, a parody account would have to be a different person than claimed, which I think is incorrect. Satire, yes for sure. I am not arguing that this account is serious in any way. As far as detecting it, well American politicans at this point are a caricature of themselves and have made it much more difficult. I don't like it either.
- Aurornis 3y ago
  You already concluded the person does not work for Google. The account claims to be a person working for Google and speaking as a Google VP. Therefore, it’s a parody account. The fact that a person by that real name exists does not change that fact.