False reports surfaced on X (formerly Twitter) this week that Tulane men's basketball coach Ron Hunter was leaving for the North Texas job. An account impersonating CBS college basketball insider Jon Rothstein (with the correct avatar but slightly incorrect spelling) posted the fake report, which received over 500 likes and 60 reposts.
The post clearly did not come from Rothstein's username and had improper grammar, using the wrong form of "its." Despite the many signs, the false report picked up steam, which led Hunter and the Tulane basketball program to refute the fabricated news in a video.
