This Guy Tricked Infowars Into Publishing A Completely Fake Report On Trump

[.99center]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/this-guy-tricked-infowars-into-publishing-a-completely-fake?utm_term=.uao2p9mra#.oqE4bOP9W

A man based in Scotland has revealed to BuzzFeed News how he tricked the right-wing conspiracy site Infowars into publishing a completely fake report about president-elect Donald Trump.

Markus Muir, a 27-year-old marketing professional from Glasgow, sent a direct message on Twitter to Infowars’ editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson claiming BuzzFeed News and CNN were due to release harmful footage of Trump.

The report, which has now been shared over 15,000 times on Facebook, directly quoted the messages which claimed the footage of Trump showed him using the N-word in a previously-unseen outtake of The Apprentice.

Muir, who claimed in the messages to work for NBC, has revealed he was the single source for the report in the form of an account which he set up solely for the prank. He said Watson did not ask for any evidence that he worked for NBC or about how he gained the information.

OMG IT'S GOING TO START A CIVIL WAR!

[Leghorn21]

1. So this Paul Joseph Watson editor dude has an immaculate fact-checking staff energetically

maintaining the high standards we've come to expect from - what was that?- oh yeah, INFO WARS!? Good on him!

You know, I just started checking twitter trendy tweets a few months back, on account of the election...and I kept seeing the same people, over and over, on all manner of different threads posting trumpiecrap, and damned if one of them wasn't this Watson guy. Watson and the Joe (Proletsitic??) guy. Like - that was all they did, invade every available thread, eh?

So anyway, thank you for this, .99center, and for confirming my suspicion that there really ARE like maybe six people, total, posting (--endlessly--) on DFT's behalf!

[HoneyBadger]

2. If it is Scottish

It is crap?