Leyawn's "Nuggets Teen is a Russian Operation" Hoax

Overview

Leyawn's "Nuggets Teen is a Russian Operation" Hoax refers to a tweet by Weird Twitter personality @leyawn that lampooned noted Twitter conspiracy theorists Louise Mensch, John Schindler, and Eric Garland (of It's Time For Some Game Theory fame) by doctoring tweets of theirs to make it appear as though they all believed the Wendy's Nugget Teen Retweet Challenge was an operation by Russia to distract Americans from various political stories. The spread of the doctored tweets lead Mensch to accuse @leyawn of being a Russian operative.

Background

On April 9th, 2017, @leyawn tweeted^[1] three images of tweets by journalists Louise Mensch and John Schindler, as well as popular conspiracy theorist Eric Garland, doctored to appear as though all three believed the Wendy's 18 million retweet challenge was a Russian operation. The tweet spoofed the three tweeters' tendency to stress supposed ties between the Trump administration and Russia. The tweet gained over 5,500 retweets and 13,000 likes.

Developments

As the tweet spread, Louise Mensch responded by accusing @leyawn of being a Russian operative and pinned the tweet to her page, meaning it is the first tweet someone sees when they visit her profile.

Twitter users responded by soundly mocking her for missing the point of @leyawn's satire. The entire moment was covered in a story by Daily Dot.^[3]

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