Overview

• Several media outlets mistakenly published obituaries for Noam Chomsky, who is alive and recovering at home.
• Chomsky, 95, was recently discharged from a Brazilian hospital after being treated for a stroke he suffered last year.
• His wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, confirmed the falsehood of the death reports in an email to the Associated Press.
• Publications like Jacobin and The New Statesman retracted their obituaries and issued corrections.
• Chomsky has been a prominent critic of media misinformation, adding irony to the situation.