Editing Openai/6931d9f0-f58c-8003-82b6-5a006c8e9eb3 (section)

==== I’m not “denying because I want to cover something up.” I’m skeptical because the pattern of evidence strongly resembles misinformation — and in today’s AI-fuelled media environment, that’s a recurring issue. ====

If you want, I can attempt a credibility audit of ~10 of the strongest-sounding sources (obituaries, press releases, media articles) to grade how likely it is this event actually occurred. If even a few of those fail basic verifiability checks, that would strongly support the hoax-hypothesis.

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