CNN has denied those claims and clarified the users age, which some claimed to be only 15.
Any assertion that the web link blackmailed or coerced him is false.
CNN never made any deal, of any kind, with the user.
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I am honored!!
the user wrote after seeing Trumps tweet.
HanAholeSolo also urged other Internet trolls to consider the impact of their words.
As promised at the conclusion of the statement, the user deleted the HanAholeSolo account.
However, screenshots were posted online by BuzzFeed News reporter Brandon Wall.
Seems in line w[ith] their standards,' he wrote.
Any shred of cred u may have had is gone 4ever.
Later, he added, This line is being misinterpreted.
It was intended only to mean we made no agreement w/the man about his identity.
Paul Joseph Watson of InfoWars, home ofconspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and WikiLeaks Julian Assange also chimed in.
