From an episode of “You’re Wrong About” entitled “Sports Journalism”; Ryan Satin comes clean to host Sarah Marshall.
>”For years I was paid by the WWE to spread fake information and act like I discovered it on my own. Their biggest competitor was AEW and I was supposed to talk about backstage issues, arguments, pay disputes - none of it happened. When WWE was trying to get a developmental branch in Japan going I spewed lies that all these Japanese wrestling legends were interested in it.”
Later, Satin confirms that WWE also fed him information on upcoming stories to feed to fans.
>”WWE was having a guy return, Bray Wyatt, and they hid some information behind this ARG. After one week they found out nobody was figuring it out; either the fans were too dumb or too poor to have a way to read QR codes, or the puzzles were too obtuse. So they had me tweet out the videos, then act like I solved them myself. It was probably the low point of my career up to this point.