Hello, Theta staff and workforce,

This past weekend, we learned of a Twitter account named @ThetaClaire that was posting racist and hateful tweets in support of the violence in Charlottesville. Based on the photo and information provided in the Twitter profile, we were able to conduct an investigation and confirm with near certainty that this person has never been a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. This person was originally using the handle @thetaclaire, but shut that account down after supposedly receiving death threats. He or she then transferred the account to @thetaclair and deleted many of the most offensive tweets, but has now resumed posting on the new account. We reported the account to Twitter, but unfortunately the use of "Theta" in the name of the Twitter handle is not enough to qualify for shutting down the account. We will continue to try to get the account shut down.

After sharing this experience with our Greek colleagues, we learned that Alpha Chi Omega went through this exact same ordeal last year (down to the Twitter user being named "Clair"), and we believe our current "troll" is the same person/group of people that Alpha Chi dealt with last year. It seems there may be a group on Twitter seeking to disseminate hateful information by impersonating sorority women. 

We will continue to monitor this situation to ensure we're doing everything we can to keep Theta's name out of this mess. We have posted on Twitter to clarify that this person is not associated with Theta in any way, and I wanted to post a clarification here, as well. Don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Lauren