After Neeraj Chopra became India’s first track and field gold medallist at Tokyo Olympics 2020, Twitter has been flooded with fake accounts pretending to be the athlete. Predictably, fake profiles started making fake statements, taking advantage of trending hashtags like #FarmersShineInOlympics and #FarmersProtest. The fake comment was posted from the Twitter handle ‘@neeraj_chopra_’ which closely resembles ‘@Neeraj_chopra1’, the Olympic gold medallist’s official handle on the social media platform. The fake account has at least 24,000 followers. While the name of any Twitter handle can be changed several times, the Twitter id number is permanent.

Source: dna August 11, 2021 07:07 UTC