Will Smith Car Accident is another internet hoax, and just another addition in the long list which include hoaxes like “Madonna Dead”, “Brittany Spears Died”, “Kanye West Died” etc etc. I have sort of developed immunity to the hoaxes claiming some celebrity like Will Smith has died, and check the credibility of the source before being shocked. There is no truth to the rumor that Will Smith’s car has met some accident.

Tracing back the source of the rumor “Will Smith Died”, there appeared an article containing the words “Smith” “Will” and “Car Accident” separately, and the next thing the separate words got combined to get the shape of “Will Smith Car Accident”. As is common in the case of fake news, Will Smith hoax was passed on from one blog to another and one inbox to thousands and became a full blown hoax.

Internet is a typical “knife-usage” example, it has revolutionized the way we live our lives but it can also be used for all types of negative things. Hoaxes being one of the worse examples of the negative usage. In most of the cases the rumor is spread by attention hungry people, who get morbid relief from people getting uneasy at the news spread by them. Hoaxes are like computer viruses, they can at best, provide a temporary publicity for the website breaking the news, before being checked and refuted. What people like me and you can do is to check the news before going to believe it.

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