Early this morning (June 28), a Twitter account claiming to be associated with the publisher Alfred A. Knopf claimed that No Country for Old Men author Cormac McCarthy had died at the age of 82.
Except he wasn’t really dead. Not even a little bit.
Keep reading for more Twitter reactions to the death hoax along with a hysterical response from the Penguin Random House account, who really wanted to set the record straight.
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I saw something a couple of weeks ago about some sports person whose Twitter account had been hacked and it was posted that they were deceased untimely as well. 😕 This is just crazy!
Yeah, not sure what people get out of creating death hoaxes.