The latest bullshit “sports are rigged” Twitter phenomenon is as fake as the rest.

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There are a lot of reasons you shouldn't believe @NFLRig, the Twitter account that emerged last night after the Super Bowl, bearing 14 "accurate predictions" about the game, timestamped to noon Sunday, 10 hours before the game concluded.

1. Why would an NFL conspiracy benefit the Patriots, the team that most regularly flouts its rules?

2. The creator of @NFLRig only publicly tweeted once outside of the predictions, and it was a testy response to a user who questioned the account's authenticity:

Lol, "big man."

3. This exact same thing happened in the wake of the World Cup final, and it was quickly revealed to be a hoax.

In that case, the account @fifndhs tweeted dozens and dozens of predictions about the match beforehand, and systematically deleted the ones that didn't come true. @fifndhs wasn't private when he or she wrote those tweets, though, and users took screenshots of a bunch of inaccurate predictions.

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