An online report claiming that actor/comedian Adam Sandler died today in a snowboard accident is a hoax — the same hoax, in fact, that fooled umpteen-hundred Twitter users into thinking Charlie Sheen died in a snowboard accident just a few days before.
The source of the misinformation, "Global Associated News," is a prank website on which users can create bogus stories by inserting celebrity names into pre-existing templates.
The same site is responsible for previous hoaxes claiming the deaths of Russell Crowe, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and others.
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