NEW YORK (AP) — Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, the wife of Noam Chomsky, said Tuesday that reports of the renowned linguist and activist’s death were false.
“No, that’s a lie,” he wrote in an emailed response to questions from The Associated Press on Tuesday. Noam Chomsky, 95, He was admitted to a hospital in Brazil while recovering from a stroke Valeria Chomsky told the AP last week that she was diagnosed with the disease a year ago. But Sao Paulo’s Beneficencia Portuguesa hospital said in a statement that Chomsky was discharged Tuesday to continue her treatment at home.
On Tuesday morning, Chomsky was trending on X as false reports of his death spread. Jacobin and the New Statesman published condolence messages for Chomsky, although the former changed its headline from “We remember Noam Chomsky” to “Let’s celebrate Noam Chomsky.” The New Statesman included an essay written by the former Greek finance minister in its column Yanis Varoufakis Brazilian news site Diario do Centro do Mundo also removed its story announcing Chomsky’s death and issued a correction.
Chomsky has lived in Brazil since 2015. Noam Chomsky, known to millions for his criticism of US foreign policy, taught in Brazil for decades. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIn 2017, he joined the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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AP journalist David Biller contributed from Rio de Janeiro.
