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In October 2013, Facebook users began seeing purported posts from news outlets teasing the story that Will Smith had died in surgery after an accident befell him while he was filming the movie Hancock 2 and offering links to a video report on the subject: No such tragic fate had befallen the popular actor, however. Not only were the accounts of his death a hoax, but those reports were being spread by a malicious Facebook app. When users were tricked into clicking through on these fake R.I.P. Will Smith posts to see the promised news videos, they ended up installing a rogue app that posted the same very thing to other Facebook pages in their name. Facebook's Desktop Help section provides users with instructions they can follow to remove unwanted apps from their accounts.
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