Pablo Reyes Jr.

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.

For the American baseball player, see Pablo Reyes.
Pablo Reyes Jr.
BornPablo Reyes Santiago
Tampamolón Corona, Mexico
OccupationWriter
GenreFiction, Satire, Fake News
Website
pabloreyes.mx

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".

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


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