2019 Georgia football running back commit John Emery is in the news for the most unfortunate reason. A tweet from a fake Brett McMurphy account showed a screenshot of a tweet Emery allegedly deleted where he said that he was going to “commit to LSU before [Georgia director of player personnel] Marshall Malchow threw me [Emery] a bag of money.”
Instead of checking the spelling or even the amount of followers on the Brett McMurphy account, numerous websites and twitter pages ran with the tweet. Many Facebook pages, including a Georgia Tech fans page shared the stories from the websites.