A tweet from the official Twitter handle of the British broadcaster, Piers Morgan, left people in shock. The tweet stated that social media personality, Andrew Tate, was found dead in Dubai.
The tweet from @piersmorgan reads: “BREAKING NEWS: Andrew Tate has been found shot dead in Dubai”
The above tweet can be seen here. Users started quoting Morgan in their posts.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be FAKE.
Scanning through the viral tweet, we found that Andrew Tate himself rubbished the claim of his death three hours after Morgan’s tweet.
On digging further, we found that Piers Morgan’s Twitter handle was hacked on Tuesday. Reports of the hack can be seen here and here.
Hence, it can be concluded that the claim of Andrew Tate’s death is false.
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