Fake Factor: Jesse Watters Twitter Feed a Hoax
After all the back-and-forth on Friday between Gawker and O’Reilly Factor “ambush” producer Jesse Watters, it appeared to continue over the weekend as Watters responded on Twitter.
And as Watters kept tweeting, Gawker kept responding. But there was one major problem: Watters doesn’t have a Twitter account, and the one bearing his name was a fake.
One of the main factors giving credibility to the account was an exchange with Factor regular, Amanda Carpenter. It was Carpenter, however, who revealed Saturday it was a fake account: “I talked with the real Jesse Watters.
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