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Social networks have spent this week handling high-profile misinformation. But under the radar — or at least under many tweets from President Donald ***** and former Vice President Joe ***** — some users are baiting earnest election-watchers with a long-running Twitter joke.
The copypasta — which has popped up dozens of times under ***** tweets, ***** tweets, and election-related tweets from news outlets — involves apparently devastated Twitter users threatening to leave the country.
“That’s it. That seals the deal,” reads a typical example. “I’ve been an American citizen for 54 years and in all my time of being one i’ve never seen an election this bad. I’ve had enough of it, until you fix this country. I’ll be packing my bags to England…