on social media was brought to our attention, this time asserting that American actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke was dead. A Facebook post we found repeated across many different pages was titled ,"We Have Extremely Sad News for 96-Year-old Dick Van Dyke As He Is Confirmed To Be...
We found no credible reporting from any legitimate news sources that said Van Dyke was dead. To the contrary, we found a plethora of news reports of a very-much-alive Van Dyke beingshortly before his Dec. 13 birthday. The posts claiming he died were a hoax. The post linked to a website with the URL hnews6.com, which we found to consist of a spammy-looking page with a single photograph and a short block of text plagiarized from an April 2021 news story in the Daily Mail repeated over and over all the way down the page. Unlike
I've seen things like this floating around on Facebook. Especially of Justin Bieber, for some reason.
Should I read this in Jeff Foxworthy’s voice?
This has been happening as long as twitter has existed. A simple search will give you your answer.
REALLY would like to see these fake death announcements go away.
Also any and all photos of him should display 'STILL AWSOME AND ALIVE' before any of the of the other unnecessary text
One of the few living WWII veterans
Extremely sad news. It’s with a heavy heart we make the tearful announcement that Henry Kissinger is still alive
I saw a video of him doing the current dance moves of today. He can dance his a$$ off at 97. 💃🏾🕺🏾
What joy this man has added to the world!
That beard needs to go, tho. It's definitely dead.
Not to dunk on Dick, but a 97-year old dying is not extremely sad, it's kinda expected.