Troll uses Twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves

Promoted tweet from fake account purporting to be that of Australian feminist campaigner inserts transphobic content into Twitter users' timelines

Twitter users have expressed outrage at a troll's use of Twitter's promoted tweets to insert abuse targeting transgender people into their feeds.

The troll account, pretending to be that of Australian activist and feminist campaigner Caitlin Roper, posted abuse and graphic images and promoted a tweet using Twitter's paid-for native advertising service which called for trans people to kill themselves

Why the fuck is this disgusting shit being promoted into my timeline? What the hell is going on? pic.twitter.com/ZJ4TUwI70z

What the fucking FUCK?! pic.twitter.com/xRqCQJz2n0

(TW: transphobia) Hey, @twitter, what the HELL is that promoted tweet? How on earth did that just appear on my TL? pic.twitter.com/vrPqlF24iy

Hi friends, someone has created a Twitter account impersonating me and tweeting hateful comments. Account suspended, thanks for your help x