Podcast: The Three Hoaxes Involving Manti Te’o

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There’s more to the Manti Te’o hoax than just the fake girlfriend.

ProPublica interviewed the two Deadspin reporters who first broke the Manti Te’o hoax. You can listen to the 30-minute podcast on their website. Excerpts:

“There are so many hoaxes going on here. The first hoax is that this girl existed,” Dickey said to Allen while describing what they found. Burke added that the second hoax is, “that she had to fake her death in order to get away from drug dealers….the third hoax is that Lennay Kekua was the love of Manti Te’o’s life.”

Burke and Dickey go on to discuss why we may never learn the full truth, when and why the Kekua myth really took off, how they felt when the story was finally posted online and why the story resonated so widely. 

Listen to the podcast.

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