How a satire site gave birth to a fake Reba McEntire-Taylor Swift feud that crossed the internet
At first blush, a headline Reba McEntire posted to her Instagram account looked like a salacious tidbit from a gossip magazine.
At first blush, a headline Reba McEntire posted to her Instagram account looked like a salacious tidbit from a gossip magazine.
The headline claimed that McEntire, who performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl last month, called Taylor Swift an “entitled brat” for “laughing and drinking” during the performance. After McEntire called out the headline to her 2.6 million Instagram followers and praised Swift, several news outlets published stories saying McEntire had used her post to quash so-called rumors of a feud.
In her post, McEntire offered some good advice: “Please don’t believe everything you see on the Internet.”
The headline was from a satire account on Facebook created by self-proclaimed professional troll Christopher Blair.
He said she took it too seriously.
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