The Diplomat
A fake Twitter account has spread, in the name of the Alternativas Foundation, a hoax news about the death of former Foreign Minister, former EU High Representative and former NATO Secretary General, Javier Solana.
“False news on our Twitter account,” the Foundation indicated this past Wednesday on its website. “Today (Wednesday) it has been published on Twitter, through a false account pretending to be that of the Alternativas Foundation, that our patron and president of EsadeGeo, Javier Solana, had died,” it continued. “We want to clarify that @FunaIternativas is a fake account. From Fundación Alternativas we are totally against such harmful actions”, it added.
The Twitter account of the Alternativas Foundation is @funalternativas, while, in the fake account (@FunaIternativas), the first letter is capitalized and the L of alternativas is replaced by a capital i. In the fake text, it reads “The EstadeGeo (sic) Foundation now confirms the death of its president Javier Solana de Madariaga”. Neither the website of EsadeGeo (real name of the center for global economics and geopolitics of the academic institution Esade) nor its social networks have mentioned any alleged death of Solana.
