Paris Hilton Nelson Mandela Tweet

ByCraig Haley

Did Paris Hilton confuse Nelson Mandela with Martin Luther King in a recent Tweet?

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Image text: RIP Nelson Mandela. Your I Have A Dream speech was so inspiring. Amazing man

Many social networking were shocked after seeing a screen dump of what appeared to be a tweet from Paris Hilton praising Nelson Mandela, yet stating “Your I Have a Dream Speech was so Inspiring”.

Such a speech obviously being made famous by Martin Luther King, not Nelson Mandela.

However, the Tweet is fake.

It appears to have been the creation of now-defunct account @DeletedTweets, who posted other fake tweets from various celebrities including Britney Spears, Beyonce and Tom Daley. See below….

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It appears the fake tweet duped many online blogs and media outlets, after falsely being reported as true. Paris Hiltons twitter account confirmed the Tweet was fake after posting a rebuke, below…

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