On Monday CNN’s star talent, Anderson Cooper, was taken in by fake quotes attributed to him on the Internet parody site ClickHole, a spoof of BuzzFeed.
Cooper found a fake ClickHole quote attributed to him. The parody quote was supposedly an Anderson Cooper quote delivered during a commencement address to the NYU class of 2015.
ClickHole had made up a series of fake commencement day quotes from various celebrities, Cooper being one.
The fake quote maintained that Anderson Cooper said, “Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you’re lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.”
Cooper found the quote and jumped on Twitter to attack the site.
Ummm… @Clickhole, do u make this stuff up? I never said this quote and never spoke to the NYU class of 2015. https://t.co/oRSDgpQXxx
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) May 18, 2015
It wasn’t long, though, before Cooper was informed that it was just a comedy site and the “quote” wasn’t being promoted as a real Anderson Cooper quote.
Cooper returned to Twitter with a sheepish admission.
Probably should have looked at what @Clickhole is. Wah, wah.
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) May 18, 2015
ClickHole is a fairly well-known and popular comedy site. Apparently Cooper had never heard of it until today.
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