Even Naomi Wolf has a fake doppelganger account spreading conspiracies in her name

Evidence

All of this is on top of the omnipresent and very real possibility of having your email or social media accounts hacked, and discovering to your horror that someone who, for all intents and purposes, seems to be you is inundating your friends and colleagues with nefarious content. Which is why part of me can’t help feeling for my doppelganger when she complains, of all things, “There is a fake ‘Naomirwolf’ on Telegram, and that fake entity has 38,000 followers, all of whom probably believe that they are following me”! Not only does this fake account have, according to Wolf, “unspeakable prose style,” but it spreads all kinds of wacky conspiracy theories, like the QAnon favorite that claims that John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a plane crash in 1999, is actually still alive. Wolf has a conspiracy about this conspiracy, claiming that the “fake me” account is clearly an “attack” designed to discredit her fearless investigations and make her “look like a lunatic.” It is, she writes, an intolerable situation, “like having a tacky, blowsy, overdressed, grammaticallyintolerable doppelganger.” Ahem. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 187

Categorization

• CANDY: A perfect, self-contained absurdity: the conspiracy theorist Wolf subscribing to a conspiracy-about-conspiracy theory that the fake account is out to get her, complete with Klein’s pointed ‘Ahem.’
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone who follows QAnon-adjacent internet lore — the JFK Jr.-still-alive claim plus Wolf complaining in identical doppelganger language.
• XREF: connects to: A misspelled fake celebrity account fooled thousands within minutes — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 737