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Yesterday it circulated on social networks and the press the fake news of the death, at the age of 95, of the linguist, philosopher and left-wing activist Noam Chomsky. Heartfelt threads of X with the image of the author of Syntactic structures and obituaries in national and international newspapers and portals were “faved” and “reposted.” However, at the last minute, the statement from the São Paulo medical center where Chomsky was hospitalized after suffering a stroke at the beginning of June, signed by the executive director Renato Vieira and the cardiologist Marcelo Sampaio, denied the rumors that had gone viral. about the supposed death of the American intellectual. What’s more, he had been discharged.
Chomsky was a trend in X. Among others, the magazines Jacobin and The New Statesman and the newspapers Argentinian time and Page 12 they published obituaries, later removed from digital editions; others can still be read. Wikipedia also had to correct the false date of death of the linguist born in 1928 in Philadelphia.
The Portuguese Charity of São Paulo indicated that “the patient Avran Noam Chomsky was discharged from the hospital to continue treatment at home,” according to a medical bulletin sent to AFP. And the philosopher’s current partner, the Brazilian Valeria Wasserman, responded by email to the same French news agency: “It is false. He’s fine”. The Chomskys have had a residence in San Pablo since 2015.
Yesterday LA NACION received an email from the “Twitter killer” (now “Clearly I was the author of the false news of Chomsky’s death,” says Debenedetti, who He had already ‘murdered’ writers such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Haruki Murakami, Antonio Muñoz Molina and Claudia Piñeiro on fake Twitter and X accounts. and, recently, to César Aira from the false account of the Minister of Human Capital Sandra Pettovello. [Ayer] I created a fake account X from the University of Arizona where I posted the announcement: ‘Our dearest Professor Noam Chomsky dies minutes ago in Brazil‘. The account was quickly suspended by X, but incredibly many media outlets in the United States and throughout America published the news as truth. Without any control or verification.”
Immediately, Debenedetti announced it on his own X account (@Tomm Debenedetti): “I confirm that I was the author of the fake news of Chomsky’s death. According to the Italian, media and users They consider social networks to be reliable sources when, sometimes, they clearly are not.
After the confirmation that Chomsky had not only not died but had also been discharged from Brazil, several users shared memes about the “resurrection” of the author of Universalize resistance.
