LONDON -- As further allegations about sexual misconduct emerge about Donald Trump, thousands have entered into a fierce debate on Twitter about the legitimacy of the claims.
They're using the hashtag #NextFakeTrumpVictim which is believed to have been started on 4chan.
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Some are making jokes and accusing the alleged victims of political opportunism, while others have called out the hashtag as another example of victim blaming.
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Many pointed out the timing of the allegations.
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Critics of the hashtag have called on Twitter to take action.
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On Wednesday night, the New York Timespublished a storyin which two women described incidents that happened decades apart, stating they were victims of Trump's unwanted sexual advances.
The allegations come after the publicationof a 2005 tape of Donald Trump describing how he makes sexual advances by grabbing women "by the pussy" caused an international outcry on Friday 7 October.
His campaign staff issued a statement calling the accusations "fiction."
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