Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber To Buy Park City Homes? Probably Not

Johnny Depp
Photo Courtesy: JohnnyDepp.com

PARK CITY, Utah, March 7, 2016 (Gephardt Daily) — So, should you believe the rumor that Johnny Depp and Justin Bieber are each buying summer homes in Park City?

Depp reportedly told his assistant, “Johnny immediately fell in love with the relaxed lifestyle of the Park City area and the tranquil beauty of the mountains and was telling everyone that he was going to move there.”

Whereas Bieber reportedly told his assistant, “Justin immediately fell in love with the relaxed lifestyle of the Park City area and the tranquil beauty of the mountains and was telling everyone that he was going to move there.”

Depp is quoted as saying he wanted a change of pace.

“I just want to move to a place that feels so different than what I’ve been used to for most of my life and I think this will be a great place to spend the summer,” Depp said.

Bieber was in total agreement.

Justin Bieber. Photo: UPI
Justin Bieber Photo UPI

“I just want to move to a place that feels so different than what I’ve been used to for most of my life and I think this will be a great place to spend the summer,” Bieber said.

Notice anything suspicious? So did Snopes.com, also known as the Urban Legends Reference Page. Snopes did its research and posted its findings, which you can read below.

“On or around 28 February 2016, we began receiving a large volume of e-mails asking whether myriad very famous people were moving to assorted small towns across the United States (and some in Canada). in some instances, celebrities (including Tom Cruise and Justin Bieber) were purportedly moving to multiple non-metropolitan areas all at the same time.

The queries appeared out of nowhere at around the same time, as if an exodus from Hollywood occurred en masse for some unstated reason. The second thing that made us raise an eyebrow was that all these tidbits of entertainment reporting came from what appeared to be solely two websites — Headline Brief and McKenzie Post. Either two visually identical and, until that point, unknown outlets had suddenly cornered the market on celebrity real estate scoops, or a new social media prank generator was afoot, causing confusion on social media.

“By 4 March 2015, many of the original links forwarded by readers were not operational. The remaining working links led to articles on web sites of suspicious visual similarity and near-identical content about why X celebrity decided to pick up and move to Y town….

“How the celebrity move hoax posts were generated remained unclear, but it was safe to say none of the rumors were rooted in any fact whatsoever. Both McKenzie Post and Headline Brief operated in a similar fashion to the prank generator FeedNewz, enabling users to submit fake stories (by which they profited through the tendency for people to share such items with Facebook friends). Sharing the phony news reports did no direct harm, but contributed to an atmosphere in which spreading misinformation was rewarded by advertising revenue, thus encouraging additional hoax purveyors to get in on what appeared to be a very lucrative racket.”

 

Source: Snopes.com
Source Snopescom

 

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