The death hoax surrounding Poonam Pandey has intensified public scepticism towards celebrity death news. Karthik Srinivasan, a communications strategy consultant, believes that people will now seek more visible proof of celebrity deaths, leading to a focus on morbid details and a worsening coexistence of fake and genuine news.
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The first fake post on Amartya Sen s alleged death was traced back to Tommaso Debenedetti an Italian school teacher who is infamous for spreading hoax tweets from fake accounts to expose weak links in the media.
Earlier, a fake account of American historian Claudia Goldin announced that Sen had died at the age of 89. However, Sen's daughter said that the economist was fine.