A transgender candidate for Nampa mayor is suing Twitter after someone created a fake account under her name and posted lewd comments. While social media like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter have their benefits, they also provide a lot of opportunity to falsify someone’s identity. And for Nampa mayoral candidate Melissa Sue Robinson it’s gone too far. “I checked Google and I saw something very lewd, very malicious, just downright nasty with my name on it,” said Robinson. It was a shock for transgender Robinson. Someone has created a Twitter account under her name with the title “woman with a penis”. The fake account has also posted lewd tweets to a Michigan reporter, who said he immediately blocked the feed.

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