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by elproxy 729 days ago
I am not sure his death is confirmed though. Apparently he had a new stroke.
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He suffered a massive stroke last June, unfortunately

https://www.medialens.org/2024/a-message-about-noam-chomsky-...

https://tucson.com/news/local/noam-chomsky-hospitalized-afte...

A new one since last week? Link?

According to Steven Pinker (who has blocked me on Twitter), Chomsky is alive. https://x.com/sapinker/statu/sapinker/status/180316457011212...

I was too lazy to log out but could see this much from Google search. Pinker said, (28 minutes ago): "Reports today of Noam Chomsky's death (in Jacobin and New Statesman, since taken down) were greatly exaggerated. I have confirmation from..."

New Statesman has an obituary now too, so it seems pretty certain that he has died.
Yes the articles were taken down very shortly
It’s been taken down!
https://archive.ph/P35WA Archived link from the statesmen.
They deleted it
maybe misinformation IG