{"id":20329,"date":"2024-10-01T07:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=20329"},"modified":"2024-10-01T07:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:39:45","slug":"tv-presenter-steve-harvey-not-dead-as-claimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/tv-presenter-steve-harvey-not-dead-as-claimed\/","title":{"rendered":"TV presenter, Steve Harvey not dead as claimed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim<\/strong>: Several Facebook pages<\/strong><\/a> claimed TV presenter, Steve Harvey, is dead. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Verdict<\/strong>: False! The claim is a death hoax from 2023 that is being recirculated on Social media as recent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some social media pages<\/strong><\/a> have shared posts<\/strong><\/a> claiming popular TV presenter, Steve Harvey had passed on.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA observed that these posts have been circulating<\/strong><\/a> on social media since July 2024<\/strong><\/a>. However, they recently gained traction in Aug<\/strong><\/a> and Sept, featuring various images of the presenter, as seen here<\/strong><\/a>, here<\/strong><\/a>, and here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not unusual for social media users to re-share news about the death of celebrities, particularly their favourites with wishes attached. But is Mr Harvey dead as claimed? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering the profile of the media personality and the potential impact of the claim, DUBAWA probed it to uncover the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The term \u2018RIP Steve Harvey’ in the Facebook search bar brought up results that dated back to July 2024. The posts contained pictures of the TV presenter with a candlelight attached to it, typical of an obituary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA also observed that graphics containing the death hoax listed the presenter’s years of birth and death as 1957 to 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A keyword search on Google showed the trend was not new. The same death hoax<\/strong><\/a> went viral in 2023, which was debunked<\/strong><\/a> by the TV presenter at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA observed that some pages about Mr Harvey’s death included links to a different article \u2014 a clickbait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, a search on Mr Harvey’s social media pages showed there is no such occurrence as of the time of filing this report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last post on his Facebook page<\/a> was made Sept 25, days after the claim was being circulated. Also, there are recent photos and videos regarding Mr Harvey’s well-being against what the viral posts suggest. There are also recent posts on his Instagram<\/strong><\/a> and X<\/a><\/strong> handles.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mr Harvey is not dead as claimed. The viral posts suggesting his death are recirculated materials from the 2023 death hoax about the media personality.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A keyword search on Google showed the trend was not new. The same death hoax went viral in 2023, which was debunked by the TV presenter at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[123,1571,4,3812,3815],"tags":[115,3640,4402],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[1920],"class_list":["post-20329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainstream","category-fact-check","category-featured","category-headline","category-homepage","tag-fact-check","tag-steve-harvey","tag-tv-show"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-5hT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1920,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"elizabeth-ogunbamowo","display_name":"Elizabeth Ogunbamowo","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7043a07f4ff292637cb75d13c8340fa9afb2ec87eceec4eedd980077c8bfd304?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/unnamed-50.jpg?fit=512%2C288&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20332,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions\/20332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20329"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=20329"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=20329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}