Pablo Reyes Jr. Explained

Pablo Reyes Jr.
Birth Name:Pablo Reyes Santiago
Birth Place:Tampamolón Corona, Mexico
Occupation:Writer
Genre:Fiction, Satire, Fake News

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.

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".

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prankster trolled thousands with fake Nostradamus prediction trick. 2016-07-12. ThatsNonsense.com. en-US. 2019-06-25.
  2. Web site: The founders of the hottest fake news site in America swear they're not trying to fool anyone. Wile. Rob. Splinter. 17 July 2015 . en-US. 2019-06-24.
  3. Web site: Dude uses Facebook to prank the internet into thinking he can see the future. Koerber. Brian. Mashable. 14 June 2016. en. 2019-06-25.
  4. Web site: Thousands of People Have Been Falling for This Guy's Fake Facebook Post That 'Predicts the Future'. Complex. en. 2019-06-25.
  5. Web site: A Dude Trolled A Whole Bunch Of People On Facebook With This Predicting-The-Future Trick. BuzzFeed News. 14 June 2016 . en. 2019-06-24.
  6. Web site: Man fools thousands into thinking he can predict future with easy Facebook trick. Oakley. Nicola. 2016-06-16. mirror. 2019-06-24.
  7. Web site: That Chuck E. Cheese Bitcoin deal is fake news. Rock. Taylor. Los Angeles Times. 20 December 2017. 2019-06-25.
  8. Web site: More Than 30 Websites Are Churning Out Viral Hoaxes About Crazy Crimes And Hip-Hop Beefs. BuzzFeed News. 30 March 2017 . en. 2019-06-25.
  9. Web site: Meet the man behind those bullshit Pokémon Go stories. 2016-07-11. Poynter. en-US. 2019-06-24.
  10. Web site: Pokemon Go: Major Highway Accident After Man Stops In Middle Of Highway To Catch Pikachu.. cartelpress. jacob The. 2016-05-10. cartelpress.com. en-US. 2016-05-10.
  11. Web site: Surprise! Most Pokémon Go Stories Are Hoaxes. GQ. 11 July 2016. en. 2019-06-24.
  12. Web site: Don't fall for these dumb Pokémon Go hoaxes. By. miamiherald. en. 2019-06-25.
  13. Web site: Fake News Sites Are Cashing In With Creepy Clown Hoaxes. Daro. Ishmael N.. BuzzFeed. 6 October 2016 . en. 2019-06-25.
  14. News: NOT REAL NEWS: Government didn't find cocaine in Coors Light . 9 December 2020 . AP News . 29 March 2018.
  15. Web site: Mikkelson . David . Did the FDA Find Thousands of Coors Light Beers Laced with Cocaine? . Snopes . 9 December 2020 . 10 September 2014.
  16. Web site: Florida Man Arrested After He Attempted to Pay for His McDonald's Order With Weed. Complex. en. 2019-06-25.
  17. Web site: A story about mixtapes in Happy Meals shows viral fake news sites still run the internet. Wile. Rob. Splinter. 8 July 2015 . en-US. 2019-06-25.

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