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Can you please link your source to "stories made up by Estonian teenagers". I'm estonian and never heard of any teenagers making fake news.

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I'm guessing he was referring to the Macedonian teenagers from https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...

Yes--thank you. I wrote from memory and screwed up the attribution, thereby fulfilling the stereotype of the typical American who can't tell European nations apart from one another.

This tiny little episode shows how easy it can be for wrong info to spread. I should have looked up the Buzzfeed story to confirm the country, but I winged it, and got it wrong.

So was my comment "fake news"? I don't think so, of course. I didn't set out to fool anybody, it was just a mistake. But it did push out a false fact to everyone who saw my comment.

Wouldn't be the first time Estonia is associated with Balkans, probably because it's actually in Baltics.

Well, I too confuse the words Baltics and Balkans while trying to recall one or the other, but on the basis of their sound, nothing to do with geopolitics, so I can easily see confusing Macestonia and Esdonia in memory also based on sound, rather than category confusion. It's not like Estonian teens wouldn't be capable of setting up a money making scam site, or any other type of teens for that matter.

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