Cenk Uygur
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Phuc Dat Bich DEBUNKED
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November 26, 2015
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4:09Now PlayingIt turns out that Phuc Dat Bich is not a real Vietnamese name. A man named Joe Carr claimed in January that his name traditional name “Phuc Dat Bich” was not allowed on Facebook, and said he was being discriminated against by the social media website. But after gaining some notoriety Carr came out and confessed it was all just a hoax. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“A Facebook user calling himself “Phuc Dat Bich” said Wednesday his viral postings about discrimination by the social network due to his name were a hoax.
The prankster, now styling himself equally perplexingly as “Joe Carr”, garnered worldwide media attention and public support after saying Facebook repeatedly shut down his page due to his Vietnamese name.
He said his posts, the first of which dates back to January, had “made a fool out of the media and brought out the best in the people who reached out to me.”
The user, who says he is Australian, had even posted a picture of his passport to prove he was not lying, with hundreds of people leaving supportive comments and more than 45,000 now following his public posts.
“Facebook needs to understand that it is utterly impossible to legitimise a place where there will always be pranksters and tricksters,” he added.”
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