“A lie can be halfway around the world while the truth is putting its boots on.” (Mark Twain, paraphrased from memory.)
So how did a comedy writer with just over 100,000 followers trick the world? Linehan pulled a page from any 16 year old gossip's book, saying "it appears that one good way of starting a rumour is to pretend that the story is already circulating," and tweeted on May 7th:
Does anyone have confirmation that Osama was watching The IT Crowd in these home movies? Amazing if true. Don't know how to feel
Adding to the drama, Linehan added speech-marks to another tweet, as if he'd picked the quote up from a news outlet:
"...seen in several videos watching and mouthing dialogue from the cult Channel 4 sitcom. Unbelievable." #itcrowd #OBL
How Twitter Was Fooled Into Thinking bin Laden Watched The IT Crowd and Big Bang Theory
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