Magic Johnson responds to ridiculous fake news story
"I'm aware of the false story circling the internet, and to be clear, I have never donated blood."
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Fake reporter tweeted that Colgate’s Jordan Burns missed a flight and took an Uber, fooled CBS and Burns’ mom
A fake reporter account that's been around since December got almost 10,000 likes for a false report of a Colgate player missing a flight, a report subsequently picked up by some CBS local sites. That report even fooled the player's mom.
20-year-old Macedonian Darko Grncarov fooled Martina Navratilova, Twitter, and the BBC into thinking he was a rising tennis star
Grncarov claimed to be a tennis star on the rise, one who'd recovered from a six-month coma and was set for big tournaments. But it doesn't look like that was true.