Submitting this even though college football is probably a bit outside the normal zone because of how the hoax was perpetrated. Somebody invented a whole new person and for several months convinced national news media to report on them with essentially nothing more than a twitter account.

First, assuming Manti was himself duped, how do you date a girl solely via twitter and respond to media interviews about her without letting slip you’ve never met? If he was in on it, it’s still media manipulation at a pretty massive scale.

It amazes me that this wasn’t uncovered within about 48 hours, considering the ease of searching public records.