Some of the fake news shared online showed a man falling from a building, but it was proven to be a video from Mexico shot in 2023.
In the minutes and hours after Liam Payne's death, the internet filled with conspiracy theories and misinformation about what happened.Tributes poured in for the British singer who became a household name when he was just 16 years old in the boy band, One Direction.Payne, 31, died when he fell from the third story of an internal courtyard at the CasaSur hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday.
One person claimed to have a friend actually at the hotel where Payne died who had witnessed him falling.'Mutual friend is in Argentina at the same hotel as Liam Payne and she said he just jumped off his balcony????? There are ambulances everywhere and things are nuts. I sincerely hope he's okay if this actually happened. Holy smokes dude!!!!' wrote X user, @NsbSo in a post that has been 14.4 million times.Newsweek contacted @NsbSo by direct message for comment.
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