In a hoax worthy of Ashton Kutcher, a fake Ryan Gosling Facebook account has fooled a million fans with a post announcing that the star had adopted a baby.
The post, which we have to admit fooled us big time, showed Gosling holding a baby with a comment that told of how Gosling had adopted a 9 month old boy after the child’s mother had passed away from cancer.
It went on to say, “1 year later after the adoption, his biological father wanted him. Of course, I put up a fight, but he won. That 1 year of being his father taught me how to love unconditionally. We have to stop and be thankful for our children and children should stop and be thankful for their parents.”
Some users spotted a similar post on the fake pages of stars including Brad Pitt and Bradley Cooper but for those who didn’t the post, which appeared on Father’s Day in the US on a fan page called ‘RealRyanGosling’, came as a total shock and was strangely believable…
Still live, the fake update currently has nearly 950,000 likes, over 52,500 shares, and almost 22,500 comments. Guess that’s how you beat the Facebook algorithms!