Idiotic: Deadline Hollywood falls for fake article on Sean Penn and ISIS

A satirical piece in the New Yorker alleging that the head of ISIS cancelled a meeting with Sean Penn in the wake of the El Chapo arrest fooled at least one high-profile news site earlier today as Deadline Hollywood published a story on the New Yorker piece as fact:

D'oh. @Deadline fell for this @BorowitzReport satire https://t.co/OSXQwHGuSj — published it as fact. Deleted now pic.twitter.com/W5X1XP8Nco

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 10, 2016

Whoops!

Deadline Hollywood as since deleted the article and tweet:

https://twitter.com/shanevader/status/686300034409742336

Looks like a @NewYorker humor piece got confused for news https://t.co/1NWFWQuAUn https://t.co/tLMpLoHIeG

— Andrew Wallenstein (@awallenstein) January 10, 2016

In reference to this https://t.co/rr8uOz4Ywz Some one missed the satire https://t.co/51jyywMFck

— Hayden Couvillion (@Hayden_Couvi) January 10, 2016

Is it bad for me to LOL at this? Oh well. https://t.co/q6phxuapXl

— Karen C ??? (@Huntress62) January 10, 2016

Not bad to “LOL” at this all.

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