Written Ben Meiselas
After weeks of getting death threats, now MAGA is trying to steal the identity of my brothers and I. Be careful. They created fake X (formerly Twitter) accounts where they use our names and post crypto scams to steal from people. Here are examples of the scammers in action:
Of course, we immediately reported the scammers to X (Twitter) which is owned by Elon Musk, but we were told the scammers are not violating any policies by impersonating us a defrauding people using our names. Here is the message we got back from X:
This is the type of harassment we deal with every day when we are just trying to report the news. And while we can personally handle the threats, it is disgusting that X is knowingly allowing people to impersonate us to defraud people. It’s all part of the MAGA strategy to try and get us to stop our work and shut down our company. It’s not going to work. We just joined the social media app Bluesky and in only a few days we have over 330k subscribers. And of course, our Substack community here is thriving. MeidasTouch is one of the fastest growing Substacks ever.
So, let’s send a powerful message to all the haters and harassers out there! We ain’t going nowhere! We will build and grow stronger in safe and responsible places like this Substack.
We hope you will join this Substack and become a paid subscriber since we don’t have outside investors. And for those who have already joined, I hope you are enjoying our content.
🤔So impersonating musk to defraud people on x would be acceptable ? Good to know.
Subscribed already to Substack when I dropped WaPo. And joined BlueSky yesterday. At 78 and losing eyesight, I’m determined to keep up with you guys! At least via your news…😇