False Hate Crime Report Lights Up Twitter

I got a DM on Twitter late last night from a friend in Ohio. A friend of my friend—Adam Hoover, a young LGBT rights activist in Cincinnati—had been kidnapped. My friend and the rest of Adam's friends were desperately trying to get #FindAdamHoover trending on Twitter. Would I please help?
Here's how Hoover's friends learned about the abduction:

Hoover had also posted a status update to Facebook that included his home address and his parents' phone number. He begged