"@ CNN Breaking news : Actor Morgan Freeman has passed away in his Burbank home ."
Twitter daeth hoaxes are about as common these days as Justin Bieber related hashtags, but they're rarely started by respected , trusted , news sources ...until today . CNN's official twitter posted the above updated on Thursday , December 16 ... prompting fans and admirers to began to post a flurry of quotes from the actor and an onslaught of R.I.P. tweets .
One problem : Morgam Freeman was ...and is ... very much alive . CNN subsequently deleted their tweet , but nothing is ever truly erased from the internet and the damage was already done .
Entrepremeur , CEO , and friend of Morgan Freeman , Peter Shankman tweeted ,: Dear CNN : Morgan Freeman is still busy living . He's yet to get busy dying . Please confirm first ." CNN's web producer confirmed to LiveNewsWire that the tweet was a mistake and that they'd retracted their statement .
Perhaps the favorite thing to come out of this is the following tweet , from Bookgirl96 : No people , Morgan Freeman did NOT die , Someone at Fox News probably had a FourLoka and hacked CNN's Twitter account .
The Fox News joke was funny ... Did Fox News screw up this time ? Nope CNN did .
My take : Get your facts right ....MORONS.
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