{"id":32315,"date":"2019-04-03T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=32315"},"modified":"2019-04-03T20:28:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:58:53","slug":"did-a-british-political-analyst-call-rahul-gandhi-stupid-no-its-a-fake-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/did-a-british-political-analyst-call-rahul-gandhi-stupid-no-its-a-fake-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a British political analyst call Rahul Gandhi &#8216;stupid&#8217;? No, its a fake account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tweet by\u00a0Brandon Davies (<em>@BrandonDav_<\/em>), a user, who joined Twitter on March 30, 2018, went viral on social media yesterday. A glance at the profile suggests that the account has garbed an identity of a &#8216;British Nationalist&#8217;, looking to cover the upcoming general election in India.<\/p>\n<p>On April 2, Davies, who claims to be a resident of the United Kingdom<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandonDav_\/status\/1113102781064282112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>, <em>&#8220;I followed the 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014 Lok Sabha elections closely. After analyzing all of them, I can say that I have never seen a PM candidate as stupid as Rahul Gandhi.&#8221;.<\/em> The message tweeted by Davies claims that in his analysis of the previous general elections, he has never seen a Prime Ministerial candidate as stupid as Congress President Rahul Gandhi. The tweet attempts to mock Rahul Gandhi as a &#8216;stupid&#8217; PM candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a small following, the tweet was retweeted over 4,000 times at the time of writing this article. It was retweeted by many prominent BJP supporters including the BJP spokesperson Tajinder Bagga.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-014203_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-014203_01.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-014203_01-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-014203_01-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-014203_01-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-014203_01-990x689.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Fake account<\/h1>\n<p>It is surprising that this tweet was retweeted thousands of times, despite the fact that the handle has a rather small following of less than 1000 at the time of filing the article.\u00a0A reverse search of the profile picture on Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/archives\/news\/271642\/brit-man-and-irish-woman-die-as-their-yacht-crashes-into-rocks-in-south-africa\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">establishes<\/a> that the account has appropriated an identity of a British man by using a picture of a deceased person named George Mills, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk\/news\/14249766.greenock-man-loses-his-life-in-south-african-yacht-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died<\/a> in a yacht crash in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-015658_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"1657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-015658_01.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-015658_01-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-015658_01-768x1354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190403-015658_01-581x1024.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the account is also retweeting tweets written in Hindi. It is highly unlikely that a British National would understand Hindi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32373 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Hindi-Tweet-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Hindi-Tweet-.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Hindi-Tweet--300x61.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the account was exposed on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/free_thinker\/status\/1113126998447214597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, the profile picture was removed while the user name was changed from <em>&#8220;Brandon Davies&#8221;<\/em> to <em>&#8220;Comrade Brandon Davies&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32318 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Brandon-Davies-Account-e1554235070894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Brandon-Davies-Account-e1554235070894.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Brandon-Davies-Account-e1554235070894-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Brandon-Davies-Account-e1554235070894-768x420.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, the fake account has changed its profile picture to a photo of Nigel Addison, a 62-year-old whose profile picture was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/grandad-devastated-after-photo-used-12240125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">misused<\/a> to set up a racist Twitter profile in March 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If they can troll then why can&#8217;t I? Hey 5 Rs. M trolls, this DP is dedicated to you all. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewProfilePicture?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewProfilePicture<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y01IirmSgU\">pic.twitter.com\/y01IirmSgU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Comrade Brandon Davies (@BrandonDav_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandonDav_\/status\/1113319747804979200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Screenshot circulating on social media<\/h2>\n<p>Vivek Shetty, founder of fake news website <em>Postcard News<\/em> also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=3250128958346134&amp;id=100000471861059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> a screenshot of the tweet calling the fake account, <em>&#8220;A British political analyst&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em>Chowkidar Yogesh Dangayach Namo, a Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=1370430349763307&amp;id=100003890655396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">user<\/a> had also shared the screenshot with the same narrative.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Vivek-Shetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Vivek-Shetty.jpg 501w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Vivek-Shetty-284x300.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A tweet from a fake account ridiculing Rahul Gandhi was shared widely. There is no &#8216;British political analyst&#8217; by the name of Brandon Davies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tweet by\u00a0Brandon Davies (@BrandonDav_), a user, who joined Twitter on March 30, 2018, went viral on social media yesterday. A glance at the profile suggests that the account has garbed an identity of a &#8216;British Nationalist&#8217;, looking to cover the upcoming general election in India. 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