Want to fake a celebrity death? No need to hack into someone’s account; sometimes all you need to do is pretend someone else reported it and watch the rumor spread like wildfire. That’s what happened in 2010 with Morgan Freeman, whose death was announced with the suspicious retweet “RT @CNN: Breaking News: actor Morgan Freeman has passed away in his Burbank home.” CNN later said it had never sent out such a tweet, stating via its account “CNN did not report Morgan Freeman death. Rumour is false. CNN will aggressively investigate this hoax.”
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