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LONDON -- As further allegations about sexual misconduct emerge about Donald Trump, thousands have entered into a fierce debate on Twitter about the legitimacy of the claims.

They're using the hashtag #NextFakeTrumpVictim which is believed to have been started on 4chan.

SEE ALSO:'He was like an octopus': More women accuse Trump of sexual misconduct

Some are making jokes and accusing the alleged victims of political opportunism, while others have called out the hashtag as another example of victim blaming.

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Many pointed out the timing of the allegations.

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Critics of the hashtag have called on Twitter to take action.

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On Wednesday night, the New York Timespublished a storyin which two women described incidents that happened decades apart, stating they were victims of Trump's unwanted sexual advances.

The allegations come after the publicationof a 2005 tape of Donald Trump describing how he makes sexual advances by grabbing women "by the pussy" caused an international outcry on Friday 7 October.

His campaign staff issued a statement calling the accusations "fiction." 

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