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Slack.com slash DHQ. The Atlantic magazine has outed Mitt Romney for using a secret Twitter

account named Pierre Delecdo to criticize President Trump as well as his Republican colleagues

in the Senate. Meanwhile, a man named Ria, who identifies as a woman, files a hate crime

report against a pornographer because he refused to have sex with him after learning he isn't

a woman. We will examine what Pierre and Ria tell us about identity in the age of social

media. Kanye turns right, Liz Warren turns left, and CBS pushes AOC for VP. All that

and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is the Michael Knowles show.

Pierre Delecdo. We are all Pierre Delecdo in the age of social media. You know how much

I hate being right. You know how much I hate saying I told you so. Just one day after

describing what an oily, undignified politician Mitt Romney is, we find out this guy is using

a secret burner Twitter account named Pierre Delecdo to specifically criticize all of his

Republican co-partisans, all of his Republican colleagues, and the president of the United

States. How do we know he's doing this? They found the Pierre Delecdo account. Mitt Romney

was kind of alluding to a secret Twitter account. The journalists went through and cross-reference

the followers and figured out who this was. How do we know that Mitt Romney was using this

to attack his Republican colleagues? Well, here are just some of the tweets that Pierre

liked. He didn't tweet a whole lot. He didn't follow a whole lot, but what he did do is like

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