{"id":108061,"date":"2021-12-03T19:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T13:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=108061"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:01:35","slug":"fake-screenshots-are-viral-in-the-name-new-ceo-of-twitter-parag-agrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fake-screenshots-are-viral-in-the-name-new-ceo-of-twitter-parag-agrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake tweets with offensive, racist language viral in Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal&#8217;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 29, Jack Dorsey stepped down from his role as the CEO of Twitter and was replaced by Indian-origin Parag Agrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter handle @TruAmericanGal1 shared a screenshot of a tweet purportedly posted by the new Twitter CEO. The screenshot contains a photo of a man with an offensive caption.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-108062 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-2.png 305w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-2-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, another Twitter user amplified the image with the same claim, sharing a second photo as well. The user wrote that these were some old tweets posted by Agrawal wherein he has used racist and offensive language. @SinhaleseSavage\u2019s tweet was liked by over 13,000 handles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-108063 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-6.jpeg 597w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-6-300x284.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Fake tweets<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Agarwal did not post any such tweets. If he had done so, they would have been the subject of widespread media scrutiny. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=parag+agarwal+niggas+tweet&amp;source=lmns&amp;tbm=nws&amp;bih=568&amp;biw=1366&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj1iO_M7MT0AhXFFrcAHTBwBvcQ_AUoAXoECAEQAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there are no reports<\/a> to corroborate them. Furthermore, taking a closer look at the viral screenshots, we noticed that the date has been cropped out.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to @TruAmericanGal1\u2019s tweet, another user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manalshaikhINFO\/status\/1465866433028517893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared the original tweet<\/a> which was morphed to create one of the fake tweets. The original tweet was posted by a handle called \u2018@sandeep_bah\u2019, as shown in the side-by-side comparison given below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"317\" class=\"wp-image-108064 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-7.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-7.jpeg 454w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-7-300x209.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Parag Agrawal is not the person featured in either of the two images.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-108065 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-8.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-8-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/word-image-8-768x402.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both the tweets also cannot be located on Agrawal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paraga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, fake tweets manufactured and shared in Parag Agrawal&#8217;s name were believed to be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 29, Jack Dorsey stepped down from his role as the CEO of Twitter and was replaced by Indian-origin Parag Agrawal. Twitter handle @TruAmericanGal1 shared a screenshot of a tweet purportedly posted by the new Twitter CEO. The screenshot contains a photo of a man with an offensive caption. In addition, another Twitter user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":108071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[664],"class_list":["post-108061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/fake-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108070,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108061\/revisions\/108070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108061"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=108061"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=108061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}