{"id":1688,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"George-Zimmerman-Targeted-In-Another-Death-Hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"George Zimmerman Targeted In Another Death Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to a &#8220;breaking news&#8221; post that is currently \u00a0traversing the interwebs \u00a0at speed, \u00a0George Zimmerman has been found \u00a0dead. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, the claims in the post are untrue. \u00a0George Zimmerman \u00a0is not dead.<\/p>\n<p>For those who may not be aware, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Zimmerman\">George Zimmerman<\/a> was charged and subsequently acquitted in the shooting death \u00a0of \u00a0Trayvon Martin in 2012.  \u00a0The ongoing controversy surrounding \u00a0the Trayvon Martin case has meant that \u00a0Zimmerman has been the subject of much media attention in the years since the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The fake-news message claims that authorities discovered \u00a0Zimmerman&#8217;s dead body in a toilet stall at a \u00a0Marriott hotel after \u00a0a security guard noticed a putrid odour \u00a0and observed a person on their knees behind the stall door.<\/p>\n<h2>Here&#8217;s an example of the post:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8718\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/george-zimmerman-targeted-in-another-death-hoax\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,408\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"george-zimmerman-dead-prank\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank-300x153.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8718\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank.jpg\" alt=\"George Zimmerman Dead Hoax\" width=\"800\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank-500x255.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/george-zimmerman-dead-prank-585x298.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you click on the post you will be taken to a prank website that \u00a0tells you that &#8220;you got owned&#8221;. So, the \u00a0Zimmerman \u00a0death story is just somebody&#8217;s idea of a prank and was never intended to be taken seriously.  \u00a0Given Zimmerman&#8217;s history and the rather crude nature of the fictional death story,  \u00a0this &#8220;prank&#8221; perhaps reflects it&#8217;s author&#8217;s contempt and hatred for the man.<\/p>\n<p>The prank site claims that it doesn&#8217;t support fake-news but, in fact, the <a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/no-whataburger-not-closing-stores-february-2018\/\">material it publishes<\/a> \u00a0is certainly deserving of the fake-news label.<\/p>\n<p>The site invites you to create your own prank story via a story template so that you can trick your friends.<\/p>\n<p>Another fake news story, which first appeared back in 2014, falsely claimed that Zimmerman shot and killed himself while loading a gun. And yet another fake story \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/fake-news-george-zimmerman-arrested-ferguson.shtml\">falsely claimed that \u00a0Zimmerman had been arrested<\/a> \u00a0in Ferguson, Missouri after a gun related altercation. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/george-zimmerman-targeted-in-another-death-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/george-zimmerman-targeted-in-another-death-hoax\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a &#8220;breaking news&#8221; post that is currently \u00a0traversing the interwebs \u00a0at speed, \u00a0George Zimmerman has been found \u00a0dead. \u00a0 However, the claims in the post are untrue. \u00a0George Zimmerman \u00a0is not dead. For those who may not be aware, \u00a0George Zimmerman was charged and subsequently acquitted in the shooting death \u00a0of \u00a0Trayvon Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}