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A tale of rumors, predictions, and deception

  • Offline EricC85
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01-25-2014, 09:33 AM

Quote:Ugh... title is:

Football-mad schoolboy who fooled the Twitterati
I've been able to get it to work after trying the link several times.  Sometimes it only asks you to answer a couple survey questions.  You can also find a link on the site that rhymes with fudge retort.

 

Extract from the Financial Times article by Henry Mance:

 

<p style="margin-left:40px;">Gardiner then started selecting gossip and spinning it as fact. He targeted the fans of troubled clubs “because they’d be the most gullible”.


 

Teenager Sam Gardiner posed as a journalist because he felt "no one was taking his opinions seriously."  Once caught, his Twitter was suspended but not before he duped even players.

 

Sorry, that's about as much as I can say due to their stringent copyright policy.

 

Strange that the link doesn't always work.

 

Kind of reminds me of all the runaway rumors fed by "Adarn Schefter" around draft time, but apparently this went on for some time.
 

I saw another guy on my twitter feed trying to link this story, it wouldn't work for him either.
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