Sentences with phrase «fake flash mob»

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On March 22nd, 2011, internet users on 4chan and Reddit began plotting an «involuntary» flash mob event by creating fake profiles on the dating site OKCupid and setting up a false rendezvous for single males at the Times Square, New York City at 7:30 pm on May 13th, 2011.

Ruth Carter: Okay, so flash mobs are the unexpected public shenanigans, people dancing in the street or not wearing their underwear on the subway, doing a living Where's Waldo game, fake protests, dressing up like zombies and scaring people along running paths, these are all things that I've done.

Years before Russian trolls organized pro-Trump flash mobs, advertised fake news to tens of millions of Americans, and promoted anti-immigrant hate, they pushed and pushed to get Ukrainian activists suspended from the social network.