She certainly is beautiful. If only she actually existed. The individual who runs the @LanderMiddle account purchased a fake generated face, via an avatar developer website. The person tweeting could be as bearded as me. Read about it from @NYTimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/21/science/artificial-intelligence-fake-people-faces.html https://twitter.com/SolBogale/status/1348634005504196608
The white men you see below are similarly generated images. A number of Ethiopian Twitter users have started using AI generated faces on Twitter to influence & sway people to one political camp or the other. Particularly since the war in Tigray started. https://twitter.com/lizburgh/status/1346603449207709697?s=19
If suddenly, a strikingly attractive and seemingly young, vibrant Twitter account emerges & goes straight for the kill...tweeting about divisive political subjects, there's a chance that it's a fake or a farmed out bot. I mean...good looking people like to post selfies & stuff!
Yes, the likes of @Lindarefugee are fake, although there is no use of an avatar face in that account. Be alert. Let's not be played. There's an attempt to sway you, influence you and change the way you think. Before granting someone your ear, do the first thing: a Google search.
ተሸውዳችሁ ከሆነ አይዝዋችሁ፤ እስከዛሬ ድረስ ቬሮኒካ መላኩን በአካል ለማግኘት የሚመኙ እንዳሉ አንርሳ🙂 እና መንቃት ነው ጎበዝ፤ እነ @LanderMiddle እውነተኛ ሰው መስልዋቸው በትዊተር ከተከተሏት መካከል አምባሳደር ፍጹም አረጋም ሁሉ ይገኛሉ።
One more example. This account ( @Brian_Higgz) has also amassed a large following of over 6,000 almost entirely Ethiopian Twitter followers. Very new account, the "researcher" tweets exclusively about Ethiopian affairs.
A western based/bred researcher...but all searches of the name and photo link back to the Twitter account. A researcher affiliated to no universities or no institutions. And yet the account enjoys considerable influence over Ethiopians and some Eritreans.
The reason why this is important, is because if your source of info is a nameless faceless bot...tomorrow when that bot may mislead or trick you...you have no one to demand accountability from. https://twitter.com/Mohas0/status/1348866051417788416
If someone has no credibility on the line...he/she may not make as sincere an effort to remain ethical and/or calculate the danger of certain tweets. Don't subscribe to someone who won't answer for his/her blunders.
So...do you want to buy your own real avatar and become the next big Ethiopian doctor or researcher AND political influencer? ሊንኩን ይጫኑት 🙂
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