For just under two hours, the tweet was up without explanation: The Nobel laureate writes that he will donate the entire prize money - SEK 9 million - to refugee organizations.

But after not too long, the follow-up message came: This account is a scam created by the Italian journalist Tommasso De Benedetti.

Has been falsely tweeting for ten years

It is not understandable the time De Denedetti is in the process of creating fake accounts.

As early as 2012, The Guardian called him "one of the world's most successful fake tweeters" after spreading the death rumors about the Pope, Fidel Castro and Pedro Almodóvar.

That same year, he tweeted that Mikhail Gorbachev was dead - from the account of the then Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.

"Fredrik has no account," replied his then press secretary Roberta Alenius.

In 2017, he was interviewed by the Washington Post, which stated that not as many swallowed the bait anymore.

The reason why he pretends to be famous people on Twitter is, according to his own statement, that mere weaknesses in the media - if they swallow the bait, it shows on poor source control.

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Photo: Reuters