Twitter hoaxer comes clean and says: I did it to expose weak media
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Twitter hoaxer comes clean and says: I did it to expose weak media

Damascus : Syria | Mar 30, 2012 at 10:42 AM PDT
Source: The Guardian
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Tommaso De Benedetti impersonated others to 'announce' the deaths of Pope Benedict, Fidel Castro and Pedro Almodovar. Photograph: Stephanie Gengotti/Iberpress/Caters First it was the death of the pope tweeted to the world from an account that belonged to the holy father's number two. FULL ARTICLE AT The Guardian
 
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