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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Rest assured: Owen Wilson is still alive. So is Eddie Murphy. But you could be excused for thinking otherwise if Twitter serves as one of your primary sources of information.
In what's becoming a regular occurrence, a hoax spread across the social media site on December 29 claimed that both Hollywood stars had met with untimely deaths, reports Entertainment Weekly.
The Wilson death rumor started via a news report from an operation called Global Associated News. The site claimed that the Little Fockers star crashed into a tree and died while snowboarding in Zermatt, Switzerland. The story quickly went viral, but if readers clicked on the "Home" section of the article, it redirected to a site called Fake a Wish that allows users to "enter a celebrity name to create a list of fake articles about them."
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