We’ve seen a lot of mixups with people tagging the wrong person on Twitter, from President Trump citing CFL player R.J. Harris instead of the radio host by the same name to Stephen A. Smith tagging MLB player Will Smith instead of actor Will Smith to many people confusing Blackhawks’ writer Mark Lazerus with NBC Sports executive Mark Lazarus, Indiana sportscaster Miles Garrett with Browns’ defensive end Myles Garrett, Nashville reporter Chris Conte with Bears’ safety Chris Conte, Nationals’ beat writer Mark Zuckerman with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, New Orleans columnist Jeff Duncan with Atlanta lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan, radio host Dan Patrick with Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick, and convicted criminal Jerry Sandusky with WBAL sportscaster Gerry Sandusky. The latest case of this comes from someone reacting to news about Forbes (the magazine) and looking to respond to editor-in-chief Steve Forbes, but instead tagging Wake Forest basketball coach Steve Forbes (seen above in December):
China Moves To Buy Iconic American Magazine https://t.co/jzU5oYn3Jk @Forbes @ForbesWakeHoops You will never be a trusted source again when this happens.
— SCM_Magilla (@SCM_Magilla) June 1, 2022
At least Forbes had some fun with it:
Wrong Forbes, I coach basketball and don’t know anything about the magazine business….. https://t.co/wEtFUR3lzQ
— Steve Forbes (@ForbesWakeHoops) June 1, 2022
As Maxwell Smart would note:
This particular confusion has probably happened before, as both of these Steve Forbes are prominent. The businessman and editor Steve Forbes is the grandson of Forbes founder B.C. Forbes, and the son of longtime publisher Steve Forbes. He was the head of the Board of International Broadcasting (overseeing Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty) from 1985-93, and he ran in the Republican presidential primaries in both 1996 and 2000. The basketball coach Steve Forbes has spent decades as a NCAA assistant, and has also been the head coach at Northwest Florida State, East Tennessee State, and now Wake Forest (since April 2020), and he was named the ACC coach of the year for 2021-22. Still, these are not the same people. (If only editor Forbes used his actual first name, Malcolm…)
[Steve Forbes, of Wake Forest, on Twitter]
