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January 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Twitter has another celebrity impostor — someone pretending to be actress Stephanie March, wife of chef Bobby Flay.
On Tuesday morning, Flay addressed the many questions swirling around on Twitter regarding the @StephanieCMarch account, which launched Jan. 21 and racked up roughly 1,300 followers before Flay dubbed it inauthentic.
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The impostor profile was deleted sometime between 11 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. ET, shortly after Flay sent this stern tweet:
For all of you asking….my wife is NOT on twitter. Someone is impersonating her.
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— Bobby Flay (@bflay) January 25, 2012
The incident marks the second time this year that an account of a high-profile person has been deemed fake. On Jan. 3, the account bearing media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s wife’s name, Wendi Deng Murdoch, was outed as not being controlled by her or anyone connected to her. Twitter immediately admitted in a tweet that it had mistakenly verified @Wendi_Deng.
Although Twitter didn’t verify @StephanieCMarch and had no role in having people believe it was really March, both cases highlight the troubles with recognizing which profiles on any social networks are real.
Pinpointing the bogus profiles may get harder as social networks, not only Twitter, continue to grow and even loosen their naming regulations. Just this week, for example, Google+ altered its Common Name policy and began allowing users to employ nicknames and full-fledged pseudonyms.
SEE ALSO: 10 Best Spoof Twitter Accounts of 2011Phony accounts are not new to Twitter. What’s different with these two impersonations is that you couldn’t tell they were spoof accounts. Generally, fake accounts are easily identified as parodies.
Do you think this incident highlights a greater need for social network account verification? Sound off in the comments.
Speaking of parody profiles, @AngryBobbyFlay exists and so do these other funny spoof accounts:
1. Android PR
Who knew that cute little green bot had a wicked streak? If you’re a fan of the Android platform — heck, even if you’re not — then follow this account for some Google-centric fun.
Click here to view this gallery.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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