The “faking it” social media user is a new sub-culture in Internet activity. It happens on networks, like Facebook and X, and involves anyone who chooses to do it, regardless of who or where they are.
The concept is the same across all of the accounts I’ve tracked, unpacked, and explained to other people. They try to make themselves look as authentic as possible, but only to spread misinformation.
Their motives are the usual for any criminal type. The confusion is over the appearance of a social media account, in itself not being illegal to have, and the sort of posts that will appear alongside others.
The effort behind understanding this sort of activity is guided by a motivation to make sure adverse actors don’t entrap people unwittingly into a variety of shady activities that undermine our society.
