Ryan Tubridy was forced to issue a clarification on Tuesday after Morning Ireland was fooled by a hoax Twitter account which had reported the "death" of Kazuo Ishiguro.
The author, who Ryan said wrote two of his favourite books, trended on Twitter this morning after an account pretending to be Faber and Faber (a publisher) claimed that he had passed away.
The account had only tweeted four times, two of which were announcements of Ishiguro's supposed passing, and another which confirmed the account was "a hoax, created by Italian journalist Tommaso Debenedetti.
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However, Morning Ireland reported the news as true, telling listeners during Tuesday morning's show: “Sad news from the literary world. Just in the last few minutes Faber Books has announced that the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro has died suddenly at the age of 67 and that an official announcement is to be released later this morning."
By the time Ryan's show began at 9am, it was clear that Kazuo Ishiguro had not died and that the account was fake.
That led Ryan to say: "The author had been reported to be dead. But, the truth of the matter, it seems he's not dead. While it was reported in the last hour online and Morning Ireland, we double-checked it upstairs and sure enough the news has come from a fake Twitter account reporting to be Faber books.
"He's very much alive. It's amazing how fake news works - who woke up this morning and thought 'Do you know what I'm going to do today? I'm going to set up a hoax and I'll kill off Ishigoru with a fake account'.
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