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Economist Amartya Sen is doing well, his daughter Nandana Sen has said after fake news about the Indian Nobel laureate's death on social media successfully duped some of the mainstream media.
“Friends, thanks for your concern but it’s fake news: Baba is totally fine,” Nandana wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday evening.
“We just spent a wonderful week together w/ family in Cambridge—his hug as strong as always last night when we said bye! He is teaching 2 courses a week at Harvard, working on his gender book—busy as ever!”
Nandana also added a photo of the 89-year-old smiling, according to bdnews24.com.
A hoax account posing as Claudia Goldin, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics recently, apparently spread the fake news on X.
“A terrible news. My dearest Professor Amartya Sen has died minutes ago. No words,” read the hoax post with a photo of Sen, which was still on Elon Musk’s X more than two hours after it was uploaded.
Several media outlets in India, Bangladesh and other countries had first reported Sen was dead on the basis of the hoax, then took the story down.