R. Miles McCain and 309 others

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R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain

They posted the page at 2:19 pm on Oct 2. Then, they manually set the date back to Sep 27 — but they didn't bother to change the hour/minute fields. (Or they just didn't notice.) Then, they pasted the activists' tweet into the post, and clicked "save" two minutes later. 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 2, 2021

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R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain

On one page, the publication date was 2:19 pm on Sep 27. The last updated date was 2:21 pm on Oct 2. Invisible <time> tags in the page source gave us this minute-level resolution (see screenshot below). Why are the times so similar? Here's what we think happened... 4/ https://t.co/lYHHCXvOEo — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 2, 2021

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R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain

With just these two timestamps, we could confidently say the dates were spoofed. And there's nothing special about what we did here. All we had to do was click "inspect element" to find this metadata. But even simple techniques (like this one) can be incredibly revealing. 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 2, 2021