How the $72 million high school stock picker tricked the press

Remember, this story ran in scores of supposedly reputable mainstream media outlets. Even though virtually every word was made up.

But, hey, we’re the irresponsible ones.

Gotta’ love those layers and layers of MSM fact checkers…

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