Current Events > Far-right 'journalist' Milo Yiannopoulos fell for fake news live on air

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Darmik
01/21/18 9:28:16 PM
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https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2018/01/18/far-right-journalist-milo-yiannopoulos-fell-fake-news-live-air-enjoy-video/

The controversial former Breitbart senior editor recorded the vlog, called The Milo Show, on Monday 15 January. From 38 minutes in, he introduced a story:

Today, in feminist clown world, and Im going to read a news story that has been sent to me Ive looked around, everyones covered this, Ive looked into this, I promise this is real, this is not some conspiratorial thing, I havent just made it up, this is a real thing, from England and America, this is coming to you. Youre next'

Yiannopoulos then proceeded to read the story in full. It was about a man who won a landmark legal case against the NHS. He was allegedly awarded 150,000 in compensation after the NHS refused to give him a cervical smear test. The judge in the case reportedly said:

It is the judgement of this court that such a cavalier attitude by the NHS is a direct attack and insult towards anyone who is campaigning for gender equality in the United Kingdom.

Yiannopoulos spent over four minutes discussing the story.

But oddly, at no point did he realise the somewhat obvious: that the story was a satirical piece from Southend News Network.

The Canary caught up with Southend News Network creator Simon Harris. He said:

It is no longer a surprise when someone like Milo falls for one of our stories because a number of right and far-right outlets have done the same in the past especially Ms Hopkins and the M25 incident. I think that the cynics amongst us will say that Milo may have known that it was fake but also that he knew it would get the desired rise out of his audience.

Saying that, he kept saying that he had verified it elsewhere, which unfortunately for him wasnt quite true as a number of other media outlets were running a similar story about NHS guidelines for trans cervical screening just without a guy whose surname was Vulva


Remember when people on here used to take him seriously? lmao. His downfall and constant failures are amusing to watch.
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D-Lo_BrownTown
01/21/18 9:29:51 PM
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The left still take him seriously, hence why his name still pops up on here by them all the time even though he's been irrelevant and ostracized for over a year now.
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TomNook20
01/21/18 9:30:51 PM
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Bio1590
01/21/18 9:52:15 PM
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...
The left still take him seriously, hence why his name still pops up on here by them all the time even though he's been irrelevant and ostracized for over a year now.

No one on "The Left" has ever taken him seriously.
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Tupacrulez
01/21/18 9:53:28 PM
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Lol idiots gonna idiot.
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D-Lo_BrownTown
01/21/18 9:53:49 PM
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Bio1590 posted...
No one on "The Left" has ever taken him seriously.


Posting about him is taking him seriously enough.
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Darmik
01/21/18 9:56:33 PM
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...
Bio1590 posted...
No one on "The Left" has ever taken him seriously.


Posting about him is taking him seriously enough.


Why would you take posts on CE seriously. I posted about a lady who broke up with a calculator a couple of weeks ago.
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