A hoax tweet said 'Rowan Atkinson Dead'

A fake Twitter account, set up to look like Fox News' handle, claimed that British actor Rowan Atkinson known from his hit show Mr. Bean had died in a car crash. The fake tweet went viral and was shared and liked more than 300,000 times in a short time. Atkinson's fans and followers posted heartbroken messages online until website Hoax Alert revealed that the story is absolutely false.

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