[kevinmchugh]

The people I follow were not fooled, they were laughing at parody accounts. The risk is that 1) I'm not verifying every account that gets retweeted onto my feed and 2) I have an imperfect overlap of knowledge with the people I follow. So a subtle parody could go right over my head.

[prepend]

I agree and don’t verify every account in my feed, just the ones I follow.

But I don’t need to verify every account. I’m not making life or death decisions so if someone retweets real lebron or fake lebron I don’t care.

It’s definitely likely that subtle parodies go over my head frequently.