Twitter ordered to hand over PRGuy17’s personal information as part of defamation suit

Avi Yemini, who has brought the defamation suit, has said he wants to unmask the person behind the pro-Labor account

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Twitter has been ordered to hand over the personal information of a widely followed and anonymous pro-Labor account as part of a defamation lawsuit brought on by far-right figure Avi Yemini.

The anonymous PRGuy17 Twitter was set up in March 2020, around the time the pandemic hit Australia, with a user picture of the Simpsons character Troy McClure.