Famous linguist, Noam Chomsky, not dead, says wife

The Associated Press reports that Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, the wife of renowned linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, has refuted reports that the linguist and activist passed away on Tuesday.

"No, it is untrue," she replied to the Associated Press's email on Tuesday.

Valeria Chomsky told the AP last week that her father, Noam Chomsky, 95, had spent a year in a Brazilian hospital recuperating from a stroke.

However, a statement from the Beneficencia Portuguesa hospital in São Paulo said that Chomsky was released on Tuesday to resume his treatment at home.

Chomsky was trending on X earlier on Tuesday as erroneous rumours of his passing circulated. Both Jacobin and The New Statesman carried obituaries for Chomsky; however, the former headlined its piece "Let's Celebrate Noam Chomsky" rather than "We Remember Noam Chomsky."
The New Statesman completely removed an essay written by Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece. Diario do Centro do Mundo, a Brazilian news outlet, also removed and corrected the story that had announced Chomsky's passing.

Since 2015, the Chomskys have lived in Brazil. For many years, Noam Chomsky taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is well-known to millions of people for his criticisms of American foreign policy.

He enrolled in the University of Arizona's College of Social and Behavioural Sciences in Tucson in 2017.