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20th Jan 2016

An elaborate internet hoax fooled people into thinking Bill Murray was running for President of America

Carl Kinsella

Murray for President.

Several websites, whose domain names have been mocked up to resemble the names of America’s most respected news sites such as ABC News and NBC, today ran the story that Bill Murray had announced that he was running for President of the United States.

Here is an excerpt from the fake story:

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Outlandish as that seems, URL names like abcnews.com.co caused people to fall for the hoax, and the evidence is all over Twitter:

Whatever though, we’d still vote for the man ahead of Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.