We’ve already caught WorldNetDaily doing a fawning profile of a someone claiming to be a black woman who supports Donald Trump — and who apparently doesn’t exist, revealing the nonexistent vetting of facts at WND. Now, we’ve caught WND retweeting an account belonging to a Russian trolling operation.
Earlier this month, a Twitter account popular among conservatives and Trump supporters, under the name Pamela Moore, was revealed to be the creation of the Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” funded by the Russian government that also operated thousands of other fake Twitter accounts. According to Philly.com, the “@Pamela_Moore13” account heavily promoted Trump’s presidential campaign and was retweeted by Trump administration officials.
WND also forwarded a “Pamela Moore” tweet. In a June 16 article, Alicia Powe embedded several tweets attacking CNN for a tweet containing incorrect information. One of those was from “@Pamela_Moore13” screaming “CNN IS SO BIAS.” The formatting on”Moore’s” tweet has disappeared because the account was deactivated after it was exposed as a troll-farm production, but the content of the tweet and a now-dead link to the original is still there.
It’s unlikely that WND could have known at the time that “Pamela Moore” was a fake and a Russian troll. Still, it doesn’t look good for WND to have promoted her, since it rails against the idea that the Russian government tried to help Trump get elected.