Wayne Knight Death Hoax Was *Not* Reported by TMZ, Us Weekly
Here’s a new twist on the old game of a celebrity still very much alive being reported dead.
Per Mashable real-time news editor Brian Ries, it was *not* TMZ or Us Weekly that reported the erroneous death of Seinfeld actor Wayne Knight over the weekend, but rather a man in Texas. The Us item was in fact attached to a dot-.us URL fake-out, while TMZ in this case was anchored to TMZ.today rather than TMZ.com:
The address for the [Us Weekly] website, designed to resemble the real US magazine website, was registered on Saturday by a man in San Antonio, Texas, according to WhoIs records.
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