AZ Rep Who Signed Fake Doc Banned by Twitter for Running Troll Farm with Charlie Kirk
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
As Trump's team pushed its discredited voter fraud narrative, the National Archives received forged certificates of ascertainment declaring him and then-Vice President Mike Pence the winners of both Michigan and Arizona and their electors after the 2020 election. Public records requests show the secretaries of state for those states sent those certificates to the January 6 panel, along with correspondence between the National Archives and state officials about the documents.The National Archives sent emails to the Arizona secretary of state on December 11, 2020 passing along the forged certificates "for your awareness," and informing the state officials the Archives would not accept them. Arizona then took legal action against at least one of the groups who sent in the fake documents, sending a cease and desist letter to a pro-Trump "sovereign citizen" group telling them to stop using the state seal and referring the matter to the state attorney general.
Jake Hoffman's Twitter account now shows as suspended; Twitter said it is permanently suspended. Hoffman has said he is the president of and CEO of Rally Forge, the firm that was banned, which he called "one of the nation's top conservative digital agencies" in the Center for Arizona Policy's voter guide.
The firm created accounts that were engaging in "coordinated inauthentic behavior"—essentially trolling by posting comments that appeared to be real people commenting on news and sharing right-wing opinions.
The Washington Post broke the story on what some experts characterized as a "troll farm" where teenagers wrote posts on social media on behalf of Turning Point Action, a conservative group working to elect Republicans and led by Charlie Kirk.