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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFake news writer who gained notoriety for viral stories in run-up to '16 elections found dead in bed
PHOENIX (AP) A leading purveyor of fake news in the 2016 presidential election has died outside Phoenix at the age of 38.Maricopa County Sheriffs Office spokesman Mark Casey said Tuesday authorities discovered Paul Horner dead in his bed on Sept. 18.
Casey said the Maricopa County medical examiner performed an autopsy which showed there were no signs of foul play. He said Horner had a history of prescription drug abuse and that evidence at the scene suggested this could be an accidental overdose.
Horner was known for writing false stories and disseminating internet hoaxes that often went viral on Facebook and hoodwinked thousands of people.
They included a story falsely claiming President Barack Obama was gay and a radical Muslim, and another saying protesters were being paid thousands of dollars to demonstrate at Donald Trumps campaign rallies.
https://apnews.com/dc0728173537459b9a1e38009dd5c4b5/Famous-fake-news-writer-found-dead-outside-Phoenix?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
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Fake news writer who gained notoriety for viral stories in run-up to '16 elections found dead in bed (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2017
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Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)1. WTF
deminks
(11,014 posts)2. Russians done with him?
mitch96
(13,904 posts)4. Ok flip a coin
old KGB operative or new GRU guy.. Who got him?? It would be interesting to see if more of the "loyal" tRumpsters start down this path...
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dalton99a
(81,507 posts)3. Good riddance to trash
IggleDuer
(964 posts)5. Mueller? ...... Mueller? ...
N/T
reflection
(6,286 posts)6. A real shame. No wait, it's not. n/t
haele
(12,656 posts)7. Well, Occam's razor indicates it could just be a drug OD.
There's a lot of dangerous crap out there in the illicit opiod market, and there's hundreds, sometimes over a thousand fatal ODs each month.
Dealers don't care, because of the Pharmaceutical business strategy of creating a "need" they can profit off will ensure there's plenty more people getting hooked every day, that
90% sure it was just his time to get some bad dope.
Haele
Gothmog
(145,256 posts)8. May he rest in peace and have to account for his sins
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)9. Drugs could have been the reason he was
into fake news.