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  • 2022-01-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Zach Roloff Death Hoax: False Suicide Claims Came from Obscure Website (en)
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  • In late December 2021, a death hoax was shared online for Zach Roloff that claimed he had died by suicide. Roloff is one of the stars of the TLC reality TV show, Little People, Big World, often referred to as LPBW. The claim was misleading and false. As of early January 2022, there was no evidence that he had died. The same people who created the hoax may have done so in order to profit from stories that debunked it. It all began on Dec. 24, 2021, when the obscure and unreliable website theartsofentertainment.com published a misleading headline. However, this initial story didn't yet mention that he committed suicide: Zach Roloff Death – Dead: Zach Roloff Obituary, Cause of Death. The death hoax story from theartsofentertainment.com was then amplified by a number of websites, some of which falsely claimed that Roloff committed suicide. Several of the domain names for the websites were also registered in India. For example, on Dec. 28, 2021, the Indian website uptobrain.com published a headline that read: Is Zach Roloff Dead or Alive? TV Personality Zach Roloff Passed Away Check Death Hoax Explained! However, the body of the story said that Roloff passed away tragically and mentioned little of Roloff's purported death being a hoax, which it was. The end of the highly misleading article read as follows: Again, Roloff did not commit suicide, as it was all nothing more than a death hoax. There have been no reports from legitimate sources that Roloff died. We previously reported about a misleading Facebook ad that also featured Zach Roloff and the rest of his family. (en)
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