By George Stephens • Published: 29 Dec 2019 • 10:54
Yesterday in Spain it was ” Dia de Los Inocentes” which is the Spanish version of April fools day.
A social media group on facebook took full advantage of the day when the group known as ” We love Albir” posted that the former US President and his wife Michel had purchased a Villa in the region and were moving to Spain.
The above posting went into description about the so called planned Villa purchase in Spain and the planned move.
The ” wind up” soon went viral as hundreds of people residing in Spain were fooled by the joke and shared the post with others which eventually led to it arriving on Twitter which then led to the joke going viral across the United States and beyond.
Whilst it was hilarious and Spanish people knew it was a joke on the traditional joke day in Spain, many didn’t and were completely fooled, even expats in Spain who didn’t know about the famous joke day “Dia de Los Inocentes”
This morning though it looks like the joke may have backfired on the social media group as they seemed to back track a little in a posting this morning saying:
“Are you easily fooled by social media?
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