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<\/a><\/div>\nCelebrity death reporting on the Internet can be tricky.\u00a0USA Today<\/i>\u00a0learned that lesson the hard way on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The newspaper tweeted out that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy\u00a0had died, only to quickly learn that it had been fooled by a fake Twitter account.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Celeb death hoaxes aren’t terribly new<\/a> in the social media age, but it’s rare that they’re perpetuated by a major news outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n The hoax seems to have originated from a fake Twitter account using the name and logo of the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, which counts McCarthy among its authors.<\/p>\n USA Today<\/i>\u00a0ran with the news, then quickly followed up with another tweet that its reporters “are looking into this report to verify its authenticity.” Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n More about Cormac Mccarthy<\/a>, Usa Today<\/a>, Newspapers<\/a>, Business<\/a>, and Media<\/a> Celebrity death reporting on the Internet can be tricky.\u00a0USA Today\u00a0learned that lesson the hard way on Tuesday. The newspaper tweeted out that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy\u00a0had died, only to quickly learn that it had been fooled by a fake … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,3546,901,1630,3547],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business","tag-cormac-mccarthy","tag-media","tag-newspapers","tag-usa-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"