Morrissey Says Political Activists Have Been Posing As Him Online, Including One Linked To Former Smiths Bandmate

While Morrissey is still popular enough to headline festivals in America, his career suffered in the past few years, largely thanks to evidence of his fucked-up political ties, such as the time that he wore a button supporting the right-wing extremist group For Britain while performing on The Tonight Show in 2019. Last year, though, Morrissey claimed that he was the victim of a "decades-long campaign of fraud, disinformation, and defamation" that aimed to tie him to far-right politics. Now, Morrissey claims that he has identified nine people who have posed as him online, including one with tie

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