Today is the start of NFL free agency which means that a lot of people are going to be fooled by fake Twitter accounts pretending to be NFL Insiders.
Although ESPN has a slew of reporters and fact checkers on staff they weren’t immune to getting fooled by a fake Jay Glazer account while reporting an Olivier Vernon deal on live TV.
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Unfortunately for ESPN the news was broken by some dude named UncleChaps who is not Jay Glazer.
https://twitter.com/xmasape/status/707653771602436096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Eventually Adam Schefter apologized for network for running the fake report.
https://twitter.com/theunzippedfly/status/707655650638102528
Jay Glazer had a good laugh about the whole thing.
Oh man I was just informed of some hijinks, shenanigans, tomfoolery regarding a fake Glaze account and the ripple effect. Takin it all in
— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) March 9, 2016
H/T Deadspin