He was a compulsive liar (judging from the rest of the wikipedia page), and one of the lies was that he was one of the kids interviewed. It was a lie that was easily disproven because we all can watch those videos.
It is also explained in the link fortran77 posted that got flagged to death.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Arday#Other_allegations
He was a compulsive liar (judging from the rest of the wikipedia page), and one of the lies was that he was one of the kids interviewed. It was a lie that was easily disproven because we all can watch those videos.
It is also explained in the link fortran77 posted that got flagged to death.