Meet the #Creedmunity: How one guy’s joke about the new Rocky movie fooled lazy journalists

The Next Web
By Mic WrightJul 3, 2015, 4:46 pm254 pts
If you call your publication Fact, you’re really leaving yourself open to gags when you fail to check basic facts. Say, for instance, when you stumble upon a campaign, purporting to be led by fans of defunct Christian rock band Creed, angered that the upcoming Rocky spinoff ‘Creed’ is cluttering up the…

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