The ongoing drama surrounding Twitter’s verification process has become nothing short of a debacle in no time at all, and one intrepid social media user has shown just how easy it is to peddle misinformation to the masses by impersonating Tobey Maguire online and posting a tweet claiming that Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 was confirmed for release on May 3, 2024.
All it took was for writer and podcast host Cade Onder to change his name on the app to “Tobey Maguire”, post a mocked-up image of the signature Raimi logo, and within hours the news had spread like wildfire across the online world, racking up almost tens of thousands of retweets and over 100,000 likes.