It seems like it is an April Fool’s month. Pastor Joel Osteen became the target of a hoax on Monday.
Eonline reports on April 8, 2013 that the people behind the hoax used Twitter, YouTube, and other social media to spread rumor that Joel Osteen is saying bye to his ministry due to a “lack of faith.”
The televangelist as rumored would close his huge Texas church. However, it is not true says The Houston Chronicle. Church representative Andrea Davis said “Lakewood Church officials are aware of the hoax and ‘false rumor.'”
The author of ‘Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential’ said that it was a hoax. He asked everyone to have faith. The staff of the pastor immediately tweeted an answer to the hoax by writing, “It is a false rumor: Pastor Joel is not leaving the church.”
In order to conduct the hoax these people created a convincing media “bubble” with a fake Twitter feed and a fake website that seemed the duplicate copy of Osteen’s actual site. T
he URL of the website had one “e” in the pastor’s last name. Since Monday afternoon the website was made unavailable due to server overload.
Do you think it was a publicity stunt?
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