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Pablo Reyes Jr.

Pablo Reyes Jr.

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For the American baseball player, see Pablo Reyes.

Pablo Reyes Jr. 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.

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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 was laced with cocaine.[14][15] 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".

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    "Thousands of People Have Been Falling for This Guy's Fake Facebook Post That 'Predicts the Future'". Complex. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
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    "A Dude Trolled A Whole Bunch Of People On Facebook With This Predicting-The-Future Trick". BuzzFeed News. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
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    Oakley, Nicola (2016-06-16). "Man fools thousands into thinking he can predict future with easy Facebook trick". mirror. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
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    Rock, Taylor (20 December 2017). "That Chuck E. Cheese Bitcoin deal is fake news". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
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    "More Than 30 Websites Are Churning Out Viral Hoaxes About Crazy Crimes And Hip-Hop Beefs". BuzzFeed News. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
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    "Meet the man behind those bullshit Pokémon Go stories". Poynter. 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
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    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.
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    "Surprise! Most Pokémon Go Stories Are Hoaxes". GQ. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
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    By. "Don't fall for these dumb Pokémon Go hoaxes". miamiherald. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
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    Daro, Ishmael N. (6 October 2016). "Fake News Sites Are Cashing In With Creepy Clown Hoaxes". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
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    "NOT REAL NEWS: Government didn't find cocaine in Coors Light". AP News. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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    Mikkelson, David (10 September 2014). "Did the FDA Find Thousands of Coors Light Beers Laced with Cocaine?". Snopes. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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    "Florida Man Arrested After He Attempted to Pay for His McDonald's Order With Weed". Complex. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
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    Wile, Rob (8 July 2015). "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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