Difficult night for the Roman sports journalist Marco Violi , passed off by the press around the world as Mark Violets (in a translation from English), Donald Trump's alleged "anti-fascist" attacker .
An absolute hoax, the result of simple identity theft, which however held sway on very serious international media sites for a few hours.
The whole story stems from a tweet by an account @Moussolinho , which later disappeared, which shortly after the attack published the photo of the Italian journalist and above a text in English in which he communicated that the Butler Police, the place of attack, had already identified Mark Violets, an anti-fascist, as Trump's attacker.
The message was immediately relaunched by some very popular accounts in America, including Wall Street Silver, also followed by Elon Musk and no stranger to such operations, becoming viral. And many, even among the official media, took the bait, with the name of "Mark Violets" which went around the world, mentioned not only on TV in the States, but also in Europe, for example on the El Pais website and even in South America.
Violi announced that he will file charges against the accounts on X "that invented this false news and all the newspapers that spread the false news."
"Having been a journalist since 2006, I know very well that we need to verify all sources before throwing an alleged monster on the front page . I have nothing else to add", his words.
(Unioneonline/vl)
