Rumors that Kanye West died in a Los Angeles car crash are flooding the internet.
The bogus story created a flood of postings on social networking websites, like Facebook and Twitter. The rumor appears to have started as a prank with this posting on 4Chan.org:
“bizarre car crash in Los Angeles involving two luxury cars early this morning rapper Kanye West dead, a second injured, a third arrested for gross vehicular manslaughter and a fourth person was detained by police.”
Hackers have managed to push malicious webpages claiming to be about Kanye West's "death" high on the results of internet search engines.
Google trends show that kanye west, kanye west death, is kanye west dead, rip kanye west, kanye west rip, were one of the most searched topics.
The fake death report is just the latest rumor to spread like wildfire this year. Similar rumors about celebrities Jeff Goldblum, Matt Damon, Natalie Portman, Emma Watson, Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne and Miley Cyrus were also reported.
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