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Many in Media Fooled by Fake Phil Schiller Account

A.P.P.L.E.
Posted by: A.P.P.L.E. Date: March 6, 2012
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Many in the media this morning were fooled by the Fake Phil Schiller account saying “Apple won’t be streaming the live event tomorrow”.  While it is a forgone conclusion that this would not happen anyways primarily due to Apple’s recent policy concerning such events, it is surprising that mainstream media outlets including Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, ValueWalk and AppleInsider would be fooled by a twitter account that only had 37 tweets. Fake Account: https://twitter.com/#!/pschiiler/status/177142087869935616 Real Account: https://twitter.com/#!/pschiller Update:  Just after…