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On 20 April 2018, news broke that the Swedish-born producer and DJ known as Avicii had been found dead in the country of Oman: A few days later, the Neon Nettle web site published an article suggesting that Avicii's death was somehow connected to his supposed attempts to expose a pedophile ring: However, this reporting of Neon Nettle's was a combination of misinformation and extremely questionable speculation. For starters, Neon Nettle attempts to draws parallels between the passing of Avicii and the deaths of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and Linkin Park's Chester Bennington in July 2017, two other musicians whom Neon Nettle asserts were allegedly working together to expose a pedophile ring operating in the music industry at the moment of their untimely deaths. However, this posited connection was nothing more than a fabricated story published by Your News Wire, Neon Nettle's partner in fake news crime. Additionally, Avicii acknowledged at the time of its release that his 2015 video for the song For a Better Day was intended to call attention to the issue of child trafficking (particularly in war-torn countries); it wasn't a coded attempt to furtively expose a particular child trafficking ring: Finally, just as in the cases of Cornell and Bennington, the implication that Avicii was somehow done in to prevent his exposing a pedophile ring is unfounded. Although Avicii's cause of death has not yet been announced, he was known to have health problems, and officials stated that two post-mortem examinations had been conducted which confirmed that there is no criminal suspicion of death: A later statement from his family strongly suggested Avicii had committed suicide: The inaccuracy of Neon Nettle's reporting is not surprising, as Neon Nettle is a fake news site with a special fascination for peddling fabricated and sensationalized stories about pedophiles.
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