Pablo Reyes Jr

Pablo Reyes is a Mexican writer, prankster[1] and contributor to fake news websites. He is the founder of Huzlers, a fictional news website that attracts about 387,000 unique visitors per month, according to Comscore. That makes it the No. 1 American site tracked by Comscore in a new genre that Huzler's founder calls “fauxtire[2]” — not quite The Onion, but not quite PBS.

Pablo Reyes
BornPablo Reyes Santiago
(1989-11-03) 3 November 1989
Tampamolón Corona, Mexico
OccupationWriter
GenreFiction, Satire, Fake News
Website
pabloreyes.mx

Future prediction hoax

Reyes created a post[3] on Facebook that was shared over 170,000 times, for good reason: it appears to predict the future. His predictions for 2016[4] that have already happened include the deaths of Prince, Muhammad Ali and Kimbo Slice, a terrible mass shooting and everyone freaking out about a gorilla. He also goes on to say that Hillary Clinton will be elected, and Donald Trump will die. His hoax was quickly debunked by BuzzFeed [5] and Daily Mirror[6] who explained how he edited an old Facebook post.

Pokemon Go crime wave hoaxes

Pokémon Go was a phenomenon. The mobile game inspired a parade of viral hoax stories,[7][8][9] many of which came from a single sketchy website CartelPress[10] a website with connections to one of the more notorious faux news[11] organizations Huzlers. Reyes later came clean and said these Pokémon Go hoaxes[12] went viral by mistake. Many of the published articles on CartelPress[13] were mistaken as real news.

Huzlers

Articles from Huzlers often involve popular restaurants and brands to disgust readers with its gross-out stories. One story by the site falsely reported that Coors Light[14][15] was laced with cocaine. Another story made up an incident where a person working at a McDonald's restaurant put his mixtapes[16] in Happy Meals.[17] The site describes itself as "fauxtire and fictional news blog".

gollark: Many people have already been convinced that death is good somehow.
gollark: Certainly!
gollark: People are literally dying for stupid reasons. It's not utopian.
gollark: ?????
gollark: If you can make superintelligent and aligned AI, you can do so, so much better.

References
  1. "Prankster trolled thousands with fake Nostradamus prediction trick". ThatsNonsense.com. 2016-07-12. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  2. Wile, Rob. "The founders of the hottest fake news site in America swear they're not trying to fool anyone". Splinter. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  3. Koerber, Brian. "Dude uses Facebook to prank the internet into thinking he can see the future". Mashable. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  4. "Thousands of People Have Been Falling for This Guy's Fake Facebook Post That 'Predicts the Future'". Complex. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  5. "A Dude Trolled A Whole Bunch Of People On Facebook With This Predicting-The-Future Trick". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  6. Oakley, Nicola (2016-06-16). "Man fools thousands into thinking he can predict future with easy Facebook trick". mirror. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  7. Rock, Taylor. "That Chuck E. Cheese Bitcoin deal is fake news". latimes.com. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  8. "More Than 30 Websites Are Churning Out Viral Hoaxes About Crazy Crimes And Hip-Hop Beefs". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  9. "Meet the man behind those bullshit Pokémon Go stories". Poynter. 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  10. cartelpress, jacob | The (2016-05-10). "Pokemon Go: Major Highway Accident After Man Stops In Middle Of Highway To Catch Pikachu". cartelpress.com. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
  11. Nast, Condé. "Surprise! Most Pokémon Go Stories Are Hoaxes". GQ. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  12. By. "Don't fall for these dumb Pokémon Go hoaxes". miamiherald. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  13. Daro, Ishmael N. "Fake News Sites Are Cashing In With Creepy Clown Hoaxes". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  14. "Coors Light Cocaine Hoax: 'FDA Finds Beers Laced with Cocaine Nationwide' Article is Totally Fake; No FDA Stopped Production". www.theepochtimes.com. 2014-09-09. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  15. http://www.washingtontimes.com, The Washington Times. "NOT REAL NEWS: Government didn't find cocaine in Coors Light". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  16. "Florida Man Arrested After He Attempted to Pay for His McDonald's Order With Weed". Complex. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  17. Wile, Rob. "A story about mixtapes in Happy Meals shows viral fake news sites still run the internet". Splinter. Retrieved 2019-06-25.


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