White Supremacists tricked Brett Favre and Soulja Boy into promoting anti-Semitism via app

This, depressingly, is just so very 2018.

Brett Favre and Soulja Boy are doing some serious backtracking, after a report from BuzzFeed News revealed that the two had been tricked into making anti-Semitic statements via an app. And yes, the two celebs were paid for their misguided efforts. 

The app, Cameo, seems pretty harmless on its face. It connects Average Joes with celebrities, and allows the former to pay the latter to make some kind of statement. Cameo calls them "personalized video shoutouts."

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