❌ The false dates were the result of vandalism on the Spanish language version of Conor McGregor’s Wikipedia profile, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation explained to Snopes.
In particular, the screenshots seemed to show McGregor’s short Wikipedia entry, as it appeared in the Google search engine, complete with a purported date of death of either Aug. 3 or Aug. 4, 2022:the McGregor “death date” result with a simple Google search that yielded “Died: August 4, 2022.”
However, McGregor had not actually died at that time, and the August 2022 death dates were the result of vandalism on the Spanish language version of McGregor’s Wikipedia profile. A spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation explained to Snopes that:include a date of death and has since been resolved. Given the way Knowledge Graph results pull from Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, this can result in some vandalism being cached in search results, sometimes even after it’s already been addressed on Wikipedia. It appears that the issue has also been addressed in search results.
By later on Aug. 5, the false information had been corrected, and the short Wikipedia entry for McGregor
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