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Twitter Group Warned About Weiner

Who Knew?

Conservative activists had followed him for months.

When Rep. Anthony Weiner lied about his Twitter scandal and said his account had been hacked, it seemed credible at first in part because a group of conservative activists had been warning, for weeks, of a coming scandal. It turns out they were just close readers of his feed. (It was one of these activists, @PatriotUSA76 who saw the explicit photo in Weiner’s feed.) They called themselves #bornfreecrew and warned young women to avoid the congressman. On several occasions, Weiner dropped contact with women after #bornfreecrew had flagged it, suggesting he was aware of their campaign against him.

Read it at The New York Times