Another day,Western Archives another internet prank.
A man by the name of Pablo Reyes on Facebook has successfully trolled the internet into thinking he could predict the future by using a simple feature on Facebook's timeline.
In the post, dated December 26, 2015, Reyes makes a number of predictions about the year 2016, most of which have already come true.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Additionally, he noted that Donald Trump will die, just to add a little bit of excitement to the prank and get the attention of the Secret Service. The post has been shared more than 188,000 times at the time of writing.
Of course this freaked out a whole bunch of Facebook users. You know, the platform where people thought Mark Zuckerberg was going to give away millions of dollars to random users.
Elena Cresci from The Guardian noticed that Reyes edits old posts in order to make him look like some time-predicting genius.
However, it's not clear that the post has been edited until you click on the arrow next to the post.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Then the revision history pops up.
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As BuzzFeedpoints out, if you head to your Timeline to share a status you can set a date and time on your status, allowing you to add Timeline posts retroactively, down to the minute.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable As for Reyes, he claims he works as a Media Executive for the website Huzlers, a fauxtire website that tricks people into sharing fake stories on social media.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable In the past, Facebook has tested satire warnings in front of fake articles because it "received feedback that people wanted a clearer way to distinguish satirical articles from others in these units."
Mashablehas reached out to Reyes for additional information and comments.
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