maxine waters used a picture of the tide receding as proof of climate change.
maxine waters used a picture of the tide receding as proof of climate change.
did maxine waters use a picture of the tide receding as proof of climate change?
shortly after president trump announced on 1 june 2017 that the united states would withdraw from the paris climate agreement, politicians such as a maxine waters took to twitter to voice their disagreement. so when a parody account posing as waters sent out a tweet using the receding tide as proof of climate change, many on social media mistook it for a genuine message from the u.s. representative:





































































parody accounts often use a combination of letters to make it appear as if the twitter handle spells a person’s name. in this case, the twitter handle appears to spell out maxine waters, but if you look closely, you can see two vs instead of a w in the representative’s last name. waters’s real twitter handle is @maxinewaters, not @maxinevvaters.


































maxine waters’s real twitter also has a blue checkmark meaning that twitter has verified that it is authentic. the parody account, not surprisingly, is not verified. the blue check mark also appears on all of waters’s tweets:


































trump’s actions today further undermine us leadership in addressing climate change. certainly, the world is wondering what happened to us


































— maxine waters (@maxinewaters) june 1, 2017





































































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an account parodying the congresswoman sent the tweet in response to president donald trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate accord.
a parody account posing as u.s. representative maxine waters sent out a tweet using the receding tide as proof of climate change. many on social media mistook the tweet for a genuine message from the representative. waters’s real twitter handle is @maxinewaters, not @maxinevvaters. the parody twitter account is not verified, but has a blue checkmark meaning that twitter has verified it.