I don't want to get too meta here but... Just as easy as someone can send out a fake news tip to a bunch of sources, a person can just as easily pick out a pie

I don't want to get too meta here but... Just as easy as someone can send out a fake news tip to a bunch of sources, a person can just as easily pick out a piece of news story that is being covered everywhere and write a fake blog post about how they created the news tip out of thin air. I'm not saying (or even think) that is what the author did, but it is interesting to think about the reverse of this. He could have made up that he made up that news. I'm mean he could have just