  It is often said that war creates a fog in which it becomes difficult to
discern friend from foe on the battlefield. In the ongoing war on fake
accounts, conscious development of taxonomies of the phenomenon has yet to
occur, resulting in much confusion on the digital battlefield about what
exactly a fake account is. This paper intends to address this problem, not by
proposing a taxonomy of fake accounts, but by proposing a systematic way to
think taxonomically about the phenomenon. Specifically, we examine fake
accounts through both a combined philosophical and computer science-based
perspective. Through these lenses, we deconstruct narrow binary thinking about
fake accounts, both in the form of general false dichotomies and specifically
in relation to the Facebook's conceptual framework "Coordinated Inauthentic
Behavior" (CIB). We then address the false dichotomies by constructing a more
complex way of thinking taxonomically about fake accounts.
