2019-04-17: Russell Westbrook, Shane Keisel, Fake Twitter Accounts, and Web Archives

On March 11, 2019 in the NBA , the Utah Jazz hosted their Northwest Division rivals, the Oklahoma City Thunder. During the game, a Utah fan (Shane Keisel) and a Oklahoma City player ( Russell Westbrook ) engaged in a verbal exchange, with the player stating the fan was directing racist comments to him and the fan admitting to heckling but denying that his comments were racist. The event was well documented (see, for example, this Bleacher Report article ), and the following day the fan received a lifetime ban from all events at the Vivint Smart Home Arena and the player received a $25k fine from the NBA. Disclaimer: I have no knowledge of what the fan said during the game, nor do I have an opinion regarding the appropriateness of the respective penalties. My interest is that after the game, the fan gave at least one interview with a TV station reporter in which he exposed his identity. That set off a rapidly evolving series of events with both real and fake Twitter accoun