Howard Moscoe Is Not Your Friend

Photo of Howard Moscoe at March's OCAP protest by Miles Storey.

His forty-six friends include Adam Giambrone, Bob Rae, Adam Vaughan, David Miller, John Tory, Dalton McGuinty, and the Ottawa Citizen. His political views are "Left wing and a prayer." He's interested in "Friendship" and "Networking." His lone activity is "sculpting wooden birds." He cleans "council furniture with the Mayor's toupees at the start of council meetings." His favourite TV show is the Glenn Beck Program, because, he writes, "it makes me mad, but I don't hit my wife like Ford."

Meet Howard Moscoe's fake Facebook profile.

According to the Post, Moscoe is accusing the unknown creator of the profile of "identity theft," and has contacted the police and asked Facebook to take down the "unpleasant misappropriation" immediately. Moscoe found out about the profile—which was created on April 25—when another councillor struck up a conversation with him about it (Moscoe, the Post reports, was confused when the unnamed councillor told Moscoe that he was his "friend"). His granddaughter did the rest of the legwork, verifying that the profile existed and reporting back to Moscoe what (and who) was on it.

Thanks to Facebook's notoriously slow customer service staff, the profile is still online for now, available for all in the Toronto network to see (though we've included it after the fold nonetheless). Moscoe (the fake one) did not immediately reply to Facebook private messages asking for comment, but we're keeping our fingers crossed.