LNP supporter ‘Holly Watson’ and advocate of the Facebook page ‘Supporting Campbell Newman and the LNP’  found herself so under attack for her backing of the government’s criminal gang laws, she “had to completely change” her own profile.

The trouble is she used a photo of Sydney PR guru and social media expert Catriona Pollard as her profile pic, leading to questions about whether the government was involved in the page and who ‘Holly Watson’ was.

But she’s definitely not Ms Pollard.

“Holly Watson appears to be a fake Facebook profile and they have used my image without permission,” Ms Pollard said.

“The page has been reported to Facebook and is under investigation. I am not associated with the posts made by “Holly Watson” to the group page “Supporting Premier Campbell Newman and LNP”.

Neither is the government, with a spokesman for the Premier confirming what the page itself espouses – that it is not connected in any official capacity with the LNP.

Ms Watson quickly changed her image after she was contacted by Fairfax Media.

“I have received many threats of violence so I had to change my fb profile completely,” she said in a message.

“I actually had my picture area blank but I got harassed for that too.

“So I googled pics of women and randomly chose that one...I chose it because it was a little bit 'girl-next-door'.”

But Queensland University of Technology social media researcher, Axel Bruns, said hiding your real identity while pushing political messages could end up hindering the party you support.

“By doing so, you are inviting speculation of whether this is genuinely a grassroots campaign or something that is orchestrated by the party itself to make it look like it is grassroots, which is called astro-turfing,” he said.

“If an astro-turfing campaign is discovered, they can hurt much more than they can help, because it looks like you are prepared to mislead the electorate to make it look like there is support when there isn’t. “

Which is seemingly not the case in this instance.

Ms Watson has decided to continue her support of Campbell Newman and the LNP as 'Rosie the Riveter'.