What is real news and what is so-called fake news? Many football websites face this problem every day because they do not want or cannot check things and a good example of this came out on Tuesday evening. It was about Malik Tillman, the PSV attacker who had apparently already consumed some alcoholic drinks at the PSV ceremony on Monday.
On the football site FC Update, which is not the smallest of them all, there was a rather curious message about an alleged app from Tillman. There really was no way to make sense of this WhatsApp screenshot, which is completely fake.
The app is not from Tillman himself, but was brought into the world as a joke by the X account @plattekar. The account often makes these kinds of jokes and is therefore appreciated by many PSV players. Anyone who follows PSV a little immediately saw that it was a joke because Tillman was somewhat under the weather on Monday. An editor at FC Update apparently thought the message was really from Tillman.
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What was in the writing constructed by @plattekar? “Mmrrrrrrr HhhbbAjjhjj” and then some difficult to construct punctuation marks and letters. FC Update then noted that it was a message from a ‘drunk’ Tillman and put that in the headline of the message. On Wednesday morning, that message was deleted after it became clear that it was a joke. The headline of this special news item can still be seen via the so-called ‘Google Alerts’.
The instigator – @plattekar – had a laugh about it on Wednesday morning and, according to his X account, happily gave the scoop on Tillman’s app to FC Update. “FC Update has a scoop thanks to the Grote Platte,” he noted with pleasure.
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