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Is opera news fake news3/16/2023 ![]() ![]() How can you not check, double-check, triple-check? The author herself issued an apology, saying that this was the first time she hadn’t properly checked her sources. They were (supposedly) not doing it for the clicks. This was supposedly not malicious, not your ‘typical’ case of fake news, which we tend to think of as connected to politics. The news had come from Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian daily tabloid. Moments after posting on my Facebook wall, I see this:Ī rather sincere apology from the tabloid and the author herself I wish I had taken screenshots at the time. Even his Wikipedia page had been changed to the past tense. Those guys were, in my eyes, a reasonably credible source for news concerning the classicical music world. For some reason, at that point I took the news to be true. I saw a post from the BBC Music Magazine. Individuals and news sources alike were tweeting the sad news. I texted my parents, who were equally large fans of his. I retweeted one of the articles on Twitter. I decided to break a habit and post about this on Facebook. There were links to news articles, reporting that the singer had died several days short of his 55th birthday. There was an outpour of tributes, shock, sadness, both in Russian and English. I typed “Hvorostovsky” into the Twitter search bar. Dmitri Hvorostovky, one of Russia’s best-loved baritones, had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2015 and had mostly withdrawn from performing. ![]()
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