South San Francisco, Ca July 2, 2020
Dear Community,
It has come to our attention that there is a group on Twitter that has been impersonating Everything South City.
They call themselves Everything South City, using our name and logo without our permission. Their Twitter handle is ‘@defundssfpd’.
This current Twitter group impersonating Everything South City is actually @defundssfpd Please do not follow this page believing it belongs to us, rather encourage the group to stop.
Last month we also found another Twitter group impersonating us, again using our name and photo, and going by the Twitter handle @cananikortez, which appears to have been finally removed.
Last month @cancanikortez used our branding as their own, our name and photo, which appears has been removed.
Both myself and our admins are deeply hurt and angered that this person(s) has hijacked our 10 years of hard work. Everything South City is a site I created to help give our neighbors a voice and a way to keep our locals informed about everything going on in our city. Over the years it evolved and each neighbor that contributes helps create a stronger voice for our neighbors.
I realize some of our followers have been duped into thinking this Twitter site is an official Everything South City group. It is not. I want to make it perfectly clear that while I agree there is room for change within any department, we just cannot condone a site that is based on lies and deceit.
Now that our followers are aware, I encourage you to unfollow and report that site as we are currently trying to get it taken down by Twitter. It is very disheartening to see some of my ”friends“ following this page and perhaps assuming myself or our admins are the ones running it.
My hope is that the elected officials currently following and interacting with this bogus group did not realize this was not an official ESC site, and now that you have been informed you will be equally as angry as I am that Everything South City, our community and myself have been disrespected.
This is an imposter group, using our name and logo, may have duped our own followers.
I would like to offer a platform for the community to voice their thoughts and feelings regarding the issues this rogue site is trying to bring to light, but I will not give that platform until they take down this bogus site!
Thank you to our thoughtful neighbor for bringing this sham to our attention. We ask if anyone has concerns to please contact us directly at News@EverythingSouthCity.com
Thank you.
Kamala Silva Wolfe, Founder/Editor
For those who would like to follow us on Twitter, please follow this link. @EvrythingSoCty
{note we are not as active on Twitter which is why the bogus accounts took a while to get to our attention}
You may also follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/everythingsouthcity/
And follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/EverythingSouthCity/
isn’t social media wonderful?, what you
really should be interested in, is where
are these extremists groups getting their funding? and how are they able to operate?
go outside, dude.
That twitter account has been more helpful connecting and educating community members who actually care about the Black Lives Matter movement. Unlike your Facebook page, that twitter account hasn’t blocked anyone for wanting to engage in dialog—if anything, that twitter encourages it. If you folks were really about South City and it’s community members, you wouldn’t have blocked anyone on your Facebook page.
Let’s not forget that. Let’s not forget that you silenced (and still actively do) community members that spoke out against your beliefs. “Everything South City” isn’t just Kamala and her editors, it’s EVERYTHING and EVERYONE in South City—no matter what our disagreements may be.
And instead of writing a whole article in an attempt to derail the work being done to support the Black Lives Matter movement and create a dialog and space for what it means to dreams ssfpd and reinvest that money into the community, you should have practiced real journalism and reached out to this twitter account. As a community member, I am disappointed in you. I am disappointed in what this establishment has become. I am disappointed in how you have failed to properly give these community members a voice and platform. Do better.
Kamala, you wrote “Everything South City is a site I created to help give our neighbors a voice and a way to keep our locals informed about everything going on in our city.” If this is true, then why did you block members of the community that were voicing their concerns about supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement and the injustices that led to our current climate? How is that not part of ESC? Why were those members silenced?
Truth is, you’re selective on who gets to have a voice on your platform and that’s disappointing but not surprising.
You already have silenced your audience. No one wants to listen to you anymore
Maybe if you weren’t publishing white supremacist symbols all over your Facebook page, there wouldn’t be a need to repurpose your brand.
Admins post racist symbols and then ban people on their Facebook page for pointing it out.
Change your name. You don’t represent everything south city. You don’t deserve that name if you are going to block people for having different opinions. Many of people that were blocked weren’t even being inflammatory.
I’ve watched you censor people over the past few months who don’t align with your views. You don’t accurately represent everyone and everything that South City is made up of, and I’m pleased to see a Twitter taking a stand, whether it’s “co-opting your work” or not. At least it has the guts to speak up.