Speaking to The Guardian newspaper via Skype, he said: "I regret
that a lot of people feel that I led them on.
"I regret that ... a number of people are seeing my hoax as
distracting from real news, real stories about Syria and real
concerns of real, actual, on-the-ground bloggers, where people will
doubt their veracity."
The message comes after several gay bloggers issued angry
statements in response to the news that so-called Syrian lesbian
does not actually exist.
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