the.com/sock puppet
A fake identity you control, pretending to be the public agreeing with you.
means An account or persona secretly created and controlled by someone to impersonate an independent third party, usually to praise, defend, or vote for themselves unnoticed.
from From the literal sock puppet — a sock slipped over a hand with buttons or stitching for eyes, a cheap toy that 'speaks' only because someone's fingers are moving inside it. The internet sense emerged in 1990s online forums and Usenet groups, where the image fit perfectly: the puppet looks like its own independent character, but there's just one hand, and one person, animating it from inside.
- origin
- Literally a puppet made from a sock, 1960s
- online use
- Fake account praising its own creator
- tell
- Suspiciously timed support from a brand-new profile
- wikipedia rule
- Banned explicitly, has its own policy page