Letter announcing President Jimmy Carters death is fake WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio [Video]

A letter circulating on social media that claimed that former President Jimmy Carter has died is fake. The Carter Center said that there was no change in his condition.

A Carter Center spokesperson told WSB “This is false. There has been no announcement or change.”

The original post was shared on the social media platform X, but has since been deleted.

It appeared to have been written on letterhead from “The Office of Jimmy Carter” and was dated July 23, 2024. The first line read that he had “passed away Tuesday, July 23 at 01:34 a.m. at his home,” Reuters reported.

But when displaying the ALT text of the image, it read that Carter “is still alive” and that the letter “was an experiment to see how gullible people are to sensationalist headlines,” Reuters reported.

There were also typos in the text and referred to Rosalynn Carter, the former president’s late wife as “the original …