"As Hurricane Sandy made landfall on Monday, the Twitter account “@ComfortablySmug” began..."

“As Hurricane Sandy made landfall on Monday, the Twitter account “@ComfortablySmug” began issuing a series of false tweets about alleged incidents happening across New York City. BuzzFeed has done some digging and claims that the proprietor of the ComfortablySmug account is 29-year-old Shashank Tripathi, a hedge fund analyst and campaign manager for Christopher R. Wight, the Republican candidate in New York’s 12th congressional district. The false claims made on the Twitter feed, which has more than 6,000 followers, include assertions that the New York Stock Exchange was flooding, that Gov. Andrew Cuomo was trapped in Manhattan and that all power in Manhattan was being shut off by Con Edison.”

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