Pablo Reyes Jr. | |
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Born | Pablo Reyes Santiago Tampamolón Corona, Mexico |
Occupation | Writer |
Genre | Fiction, Satire, Fake News |
Website | |
pabloreyes |
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.
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.
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.
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".
Pablo Reyes Jr. | |
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Born | Pablo Reyes Santiago Tampamolón Corona, Mexico |
Occupation | Writer |
Genre | Fiction, Satire, Fake News |
Website | |
pabloreyes |
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.
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.
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.
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".