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Contrary to What You May Have Seen from Bullshit Asian Scam Pages on Facebook, Tom McCarthy is Not Retiring

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Jan 9th, 2026 · 2:07 PM EST

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On this week’s episode of “Asian scammers continue to spread fake news on Meta using artificial intelligence,” a T Mac retirement story:

T Mac confirmed that’s NOT retiring while adding that he’s wearing a “bad shirt” in this photo.

This particular bullshit page is called “Liberty Lineup” and has 36,000 followers. The T Mac retirement post got 282 comments and 63 shares, and it links to some bullshit website based out of Hong Kong. The comments are littered with bots and boomers alike, the engagement pushing “Liberty Lineup” into our algorithms.

In six posts that followed the T Mac retirement story, “Liberty Lineup” reported that:

• Mike Schmidt is battling cancer
• Steve Carlton is auctioning off $8 million to help the poor
• Bryson Stott Alec Bohm avoided arbitration (true)
• the Phillies will sign Bo Bichette (from Matt Gelb and Ken Rosenthal’s report)
• T Mac is battling Nasopharyngeal Cancer

It’s a combination job. One half is scraping legitimate reports and aggregating without credit, and the other half is the totally fake A.I. stories.

The registered address for this page is “3945 Seltice Way, Hayden Lake, ID, United States, 83835,” which is not a real address. It takes you to a Coeur d’Alene roundabout, while Hayden Lake is located 20 minutes northeast. The listed phone number is out of service and there’s a link to an Instagram account that appears to have been deleted. Among the page’s followers are two fake Alec Bohm accounts, a fake Bryce Harper account, and 53 real people who also following Crossing Broad.

Par for the course, really. We’ve reported on this before. Awful Announcing editor Ben Koo is on the same warpath, wondering, for instance, if ESPN is doing anything about reputational harm to its talent:

Honest question for @ESPNPR and others.

These pages (run overseas, get paid by FB and buy ads on FB) put out disinformation to the point where talent calls it out

Is this on the radar? Does FB just not do anything?

Massive reputational harm. Talent increasingly frustrated. pic.twitter.com/JGDlJYungP

— Ben Koo (@bkoo) January 7, 2026

Stand by for further instructions. We will defeat the scammers and restore Facebook to what it once was – still a hellscape, but with real pages, not fake ones.