George H.W. Bush pronounced dead by fake FOX news site

President George H. W. Bush started 2017 with a stint in the hospital, after he was diagnosed with a case of pneumonia.

Although he was treated and then released from the hospital on Jan. 30, fake news sites recently pronounced the 41st president dead.

The idea for the deceptive post, who the Fox-Channel.com site sources as coming from America's Public broadcaster, likely came after Bush and his wife oversaw the coin toss at the start of Super Bowl 51.

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This report can be labeled as "fake news" for multiple reasons. First, it has not been reported by any reputable news sources -- such as the Associated Press, Thompson Reuters, the New York Times or FOX News. Then, the report says people had tweeted their condolences to the former president's family -- including President Trump. President Trump's Twitter account shows no evidence of any such post.

In addition, neither George H. W. Bush's own Twitter account nor that of granddaughter and NBC News Correspondent Jenna Bush Hager displays any reaction to such news.

Nonetheless, social media users were sucked in by the false write up.

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