“A review on Saturday showed nearly 100 fake Barron Trump accounts were still active on Twitter, not counting those that identified as parodies.”— Jack Nicas, nytimes.com
“If you’re unsure if someone is the person who they say they are, conduct a Google reverse image search based on the photos they’re using. If you find out the photos are linked to someone else’s profile, you’ve likely exposed this person’s lie.”— Danielle Corcione, teenvogue.com
“It’s hardly surprising either that a lot of the deadbeat dommes are, in fact, men posing as women with stolen photos and videos.”— Mic Wright, melmagazine.com
“By pretending to be someone I was not, I had shown him my true self, one I had been too afraid to reveal to anyone else.”— Kalle Oskari Mattila, nytimes.com
“A less deceptive (and considerably less serious) subcategory of catfishing, so-called hatfishing occurs when someone wears a hat to conceal the fact that they’re more or less balding.”— Brittany Wong, huffingtonpost.com
“I couldn’t bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com