Death hoaxes targeting social media personalities are a recurring and deeply harmful form of misinformation online. When a video began circulating claiming that popular Sri Lankan content creator 3Posha Family had died in a road accident, it spread rapidly, causing distress to followers and flooding the creator with phone calls from concerned friends and fans. Below is our fact-check of that claim.
Social Media Posts:
A video circulated on social media, including TikTok and Facebook, falsely claiming that content creator 3Posha Family had passed away in a road accident.
The same video also spread on Facebook as seen here.
Photo posts related to the alleged accident also circulated in this form:
Fact-Check:
If a well-known social media personality had passed away, the news would have been reported by mainstream media and confirmed through official sources or the creator’s own social media handles. Our investigation found no credible source confirming the death of the content creator known as 3Posha Family. We therefore examined their social media pages directly.
The Posts Claiming 3Posha Family Has Died Are False
3Posha Family responded personally by publishing a video on their own page, confirming that the posts claiming they had died are false. In the video, the creator stated that a fabricated death hoax about them had been spreading on social media, and that the volume of concerned phone calls received as a result had caused significant personal distress. The video was...
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