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CNN apparently got trolled during its New Year’s Eve broadcast with raunchy fake Twitter names.
The broadcast featured tweets at the bottom of the screen that used the hashtag #CNNNYE, including from users with names such as “Ben Dover,” “Mike Oxlong,” and “Bo Nehr.”
According to the Daily Beast, most of the prank accounts are connected, with users Anita Dump, Ben Dover, Dixie Normus, Harry Cox, Hugh Jass, Mike Oxlong and Seymour Butts all following one another.
The Beast reported that @MikeOxLong625 is likely the master account, as it was created in February 2021, while the other six accounts were created in December. As of Sunday, the Mike Oxlong account no longer exists.
“Darn,” Ben Dover tweeted shortly before midnight. “It was fun while it lasted!”
A TikTok featuring several of the tweets receiver more than 750,000 likes, with the TikTok user commenting, “This is CNN, you think that they’d have someone screening this sh*t.”
