Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-SC) former staffers stated that the South Carolina lawmaker had them create fake online accounts to promote herself.
The former staffers told Wired that Mace, a self-described coder, set up "burner accounts on a variety of social media platforms to monitor what people were saying about her and bolster her image."
"We had to make multiple accounts, burner accounts, and go and reply to comments, saying things that weren't true—even Reddit forums," one former staffer explained. "We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents."
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Sydney Long, Mace's communications director, insisted that having staffers create burner accounts "would be a slap in the face to taxpayers across the country."
"The only relationship the Congresswoman cares about is her one with South Carolina. She is married to her job and that is all the media should care about," Long said without denying the claims.
The former staffers also cast doubt on the idea that Mace taught herself to code.
"I never saw her coding s---. Ever," the person noted. "But, I mean, she'd talk about tech a lot."
