NEW YORK — Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, said Tuesday that reports that the famous linguist and activist had died were untrue.
“No, that is false,” she wrote Tuesday in response to emailed questions from The Associated Press.
Noam Chomsky, 95, suffered a stroke a year ago and was hospitalized in Brazil recovering, Valeria Chomsky told The Associated Press last week.
But Sao Paulo’s Beneficencia Portuguesa hospital said in a statement that Chomsky was released from the hospital on Tuesday to continue his treatment at home.
A series of erroneous reports about Chomsky’s death were trending on X-Channel early Tuesday morning.
Both Jacobin and the New Statesman published obituaries for Chomsky, but Jacobin changed the headline from “Remembering Noam Chomsky” to “Celebrating Noam Chomsky”.
The New Statesman has completely removed an essay by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The Brazilian news site Diario do Centro do Mundo also removed an article announcing Chomsky’s death and published a correction.
The Chomskys have lived in Brazil since 2015. Noam Chomsky is a known critic of US foreign policy and has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for decades.
In 2017, he joined the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
