Adrienne Elrod, a Democratic strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, was certain the Mike Bloomberg campaign account had been hacked.
On Jan. 14, the night of a Democratic presidential debate that did not include Bloomberg, his campaign’s Twitter account sent out a number of eyebrow-raising tweets, including a picture of him photoshopped as a meatball, round and covered in sauce. Elrod reached out to the campaign to let them know of the intrusion.
"Oh my God, I don't know if you guys realize this — your account's been hacked," she recalled telling the campaign. "And they're like: 'No, no, no. It's part of our strategy.'"