News Outlets Including TOI, Zee News, PTI Fall for Amartya Sen’s Death Hoax
By Hazel Gandhi News agency Press Trust of India (PTI) and outlets including The Times of India and Zee News ran false reports of economist and Nobel awardee Amartya Sen passing away. BOOM found that the reports are false and the death hoax originated from a fake account impersonating recent Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin. The tweet from the account purportedly belonging to Goldin shared a picture of Sen with the caption, "A terrible news. My dearest Professor Amartya Sen has died minutes ago. No words." Click here to view the post and here for an archive. Following this tweet, PTI, (archive he...