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Why did a 13-year-old conservative star apparently hoax the White House?
By David Weigel
On Thursday afternoon, 13-year old CJ Pearson warned his 43,900 followers not to believe what they read. The black Georgia teenager, whose activism and online success had made him a youth outreach chairman for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), had been trading messages with a reporter for Glenn Beck's news site, The Blaze. Oliver Darcy, a reporter for the site, was asking Pearson to prove — as he had claimed, to great viral attention — that President Obama had truly blocked him on Twitter. In lieu of proof, Pearson was calling for help.
"In a few minutes, @oliverdarcy is going to release a hit article on me and I'm going to take it," Pearson wrote. "Because here's what the PR folks are saying: say you lied and apologize to avoid backlash. But, instead, I choose to stand by my word. While the article will be incriminating, all we have in politics is our word and I stand by it. Nevertheless, I'm disappointed in @theblaze."
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