Ralf Little suspended from Twitter for pretending to be Tory party press office

And he wasn’t alone – dozens of fake accounts sprang up to mock

But the social media giant has been accused of ‘going after the little people’ for punishing the actor and other joke accounts, while the Conservative Party remains unpunished. Another wrote: ‘Obvious parodies are clearly not a problem. Presenting a partisan account as independent is something that must be avoided.’The author Aaron Gillies, who is known by his Twitter handle ‘Technically Ron’, also made a number of jokes during the debate while pretending to be ‘FactCheckUK’ – the same handle used by the Conservative Party.

‘We have global rules in place that prohibit behaviour that can mislead people, including those with verified accounts.supports HTML5 video The @CCHQpress account is verified by Twitter, displaying a blue tick which is intended to denote that a user is genuine. ‘The reason we did that is because we were calling out the inaccuracies, the lies that were coming out during the debate. The NHS is not for sale.’

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