{"id":178522,"date":"2016-01-02T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=178522"},"modified":"2016-01-02T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:12:38","slug":"twitter-confuses-man-with-is-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/01\/twitter-confuses-man-with-is-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter \u2018confuses\u2019 man with IS leader"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Arab Spring activist says his Twitter account was suspended after administrators mistook him for the leader of the so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n
Iyad El-Baghdadi said his account was suspended for about half an hour.<\/p>\n
Mr El-Baghdadi had been misidentified as IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Indonesian newspaper Republika and the New York Post.<\/p>\n
He has more than 70,000 Twitter followers and frequently mocks IS. Twitter has made no comment.<\/p>\n