Public officials can be fooled by obvious online disinformation pranks [fact]
A particularly dismal moment came when she fell for an online prank and shared a photo of a "doctor" who seemed to be questioning the vaccination drive. Only it turned out that the doctor she quoted was not a doctor, but rather a well-known male porn star dressed in scrubs with a stethoscope around his neck. The tweet revealing the prank (pulled off by The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein) was "liked" seventy-one thousand times.
XREF: Connects to broader reporting on viral disinformation, prank networks like Klippenstein's targeting of anti-vaccine figures, and public figure susceptibility to hoaxes.
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 233