As easy as slapping on a fake label.
Re the abiding evil of pushing ivermectin and other antiparasitic drugs as cancer cures:
A trend on social media, notably Twitter, is accounts purporting to be MD oncologists promoting “cancer protocols” employing IVM, fenbendazole, mebendazole etc. with allegedly wondrous results that They don’t want you to know about. Curiously, one cannot find these alleged oncology practices via online search, and accounts stating they are American are actually based in Africa or other non-U.S. locations.
If they’re not selliing antiparasitics themselves, these accounts (which typically have very little engagement) seem designed to drive patients to drug sellers.
The title of Most Evil probably goes to William Makis, a Canadian radiologist who lost his medical license and blames Covid vaccines for “turbo cancer”, now styling himself as a cancer expert, exploiting cancer patients with his unproven worm pill treatments.
DNA evidence has finally solved the cold case murder of an 8-year-old Chicago girl who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered while walking 3 1/2 blocks on her way to Mass in 1960.
The killer (who died in 2006) was a Chicago PD patrol officer who later became a homicide detective.
The latest wrinkle in the phenomenon of Twitter accounts purporting to be oncologists and pushing worm pills for cancer, is accounts impersonating real-life cancer specialists, one of whom (at Indiana University) reportedly has urged Twitter to delete the fake account, to no avail.
Report these accounts online, and you get a message saying that “X’s automated systems” have not detected any violation.
The platform encourages evil behavior.
The “free speech means evil speech” platform. :sad:
Just wait 'til they actually get good at it. We’re in the toddler stage now.
This could make it harder for her to land a good post-doc job.
Would that be covered under any identity theft laws?
Just looking very quickly, I found this, from Texas
https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-33-07/
(a) A person commits an offense if the person, without obtaining the other person’s consent and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten any person, uses the name or persona of another person to:
(1) create a web page on a commercial social networking site or other Internet website; or
You’d think so. However, the matter is complicated by these identity-thieving accounts being based in India and Africa. Good luck with suing Twitter over enabling such accounts.*
A well-known oncologist in Oregon was similarly targeted.
Fake X account:
*the fake account impersonating the Indiana cancer specialist was briefly taken down, then reinstated.
The only safe thing is to assume every “expert” on Twitter is fake.
And the cancer-grifters also make a point of looking out for any account relating family cancer histories, to piggyback on it. Of course, bonus if it’s a celebrity: saw that happen on William Shatner’s X, who for the cherry on top also mentioned how alternative treatments did not help Scott Adams so that further baited the other dudes.
The fakers themselves are overseas, but X has a large presence in the US. And by not taking down those accounts, they’re participating in the identity theft.
Effective law enforcement against corporate tycoon crimes. What a novel idea. Perhaps we should invent some, since we sure don’t have it.
Not meaning to be sarcastic towards you, just towards the situation you rightly point out.
When self-identifying as “truth-tellers” or “critical thinkers” and/or they’re selling something, the odds of their being fake experts and grifters are overwhelming.
Another safe bet: any post prefaced by 
BOOM! 
BREAKING!!! 
will turn out to be bullshit.
Absolutely 100%.
BREAKING: LOCAL AREA MOM DISCOVERS FIVE NEW TIPS FOR AVOIDING SPAM ON TWITTER
SPAMMERS HATE HER!
NUMBER FOUR WILL SHOCK YOU! 
[Insert unrelated photo of scantily clad woman with a surprised expression]
Those tropes are so old and worn out, it’s even more insulting that they expect anyone to still fall for them.
Don’t you want to know the identity of that one food neurologists are begging you to stop eating, to avoid dementia?
Is everyone else getting the creepy AI images of elderly people sitting in hospital beds, but dressed in full military uniform? Presumably they didn’t know that ALZHEIMER’S STARTS WHEN YOU CAN’T SAY THESE 3 WORDS, SAY MDS.