Cormac McCarthy is still alive despite USA Today's best attempts to tell you otherwis
 

Cormac McCarthy is still alive despite USA Today's best attempts to tell you otherwise
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Celebrity death reporting on the internet can be tricky.*USA Today*learned that lesson the hard way on Tuesday.

The newspaper tweeted out that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy*had died, only to quickly learn that it had been fooled by a fake Twitter account.*

Celeb death hoaxes aren't terribly new in the social media age, but it's rare that they're perpetuated by a major news outlet.*

The hoax seems to have originated from a fake Twitter account using the name and logo of the Alfred A. K**pf publishing house, which counts McCarthy among its authors.





USA Today*ran with the news, then quickly followed up with a**ther tweet that its reporters "are looking into this report to verify its authenticity." Read more...


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