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Radiohead protest concert one big hoax

Twitter was aflutter with tweets about a free Radiohead concert at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protest. One problem: It never happened.

Fruzsina Eördögh

Updated on June 3 2021 2:28 am CDT

Who wouldn’t want to attend a free Radiohead concert?

That is what Occupy Wall Street protestors thought they were going to get today, at 4 p.m. ET. Sadly, it was just a rumor.

The rumor might have started on Twitter, but once it was picked up by Gawker, numerous other publications subsequently picked up the story. And Twitter went wild about it for a couple hours until Radiohead confirmed they would NOT be playing for the protestors.

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Fruzsina Eördögh

Fruzsina Eördögh was the Daily Dot’s first YouTube reporter. In addition to working as a producer for the now-defunct digital channel TouchVision TV, Eördögh has been published by Vice, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, Variety, and Slate.