Even in this day and age it doesn’t take much to fool gullible people on social media . Today, this fake ABC News report of El Chapo escaping for a third time made the rounds online and was even able to become the number one trending topic on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/ethansnyder_/status/693851615741083648
If you look close enough you could see that the website is not the official ABC website but people still fell for it anyways.
wait, wait, wait… Did El Chapo escape again? Is this REAL?
— FRED (@fredIZtweets) January 31, 2016
https://twitter.com/wordfuI/status/693865445883940864
so apparently el chapo escaped prison again lmfao
— Jonathan Cubillos (@jcubillos3) January 31, 2016
https://twitter.com/Crmedinho/status/693860917071589376
https://twitter.com/TheMexicanVines/status/693859715378335744
El Chapo a real legend. His life like a movie. A man escaped prison for the 3rd time. Coming like a new season of a Tv programme
— Kato 🤴🏽 (@IntoxicatedPapi) January 31, 2016
And then we have the voice of reason.
El Chapo didn't escape y'all. Just a fake site. But it's funny that we all thought it was plausible.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) January 31, 2016