Posts falsely claim to have predicted Will Smith slapping Chris Rock
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- Published on April 1, 2022 at 22:49
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- By AFP USA, Manon JACOB,
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"Will Smith gonna smack the piss out Chris Rock one day," says a Facebook post dated March 28, 2015. But its edit history makes clear that the post originally said: "At first I thought he was trying to get a cat out the tree....with fire hose."
The reference to the Oscars altercation was only added on March 28, 2022, a day after Smith shocked the entertainment world by taking the stage during the live broadcast of Hollywood's most important night and hitting Rock after the comedian made a joke about the actor's wife.
Another Facebook post dating to 2015 also falsely claimed to have predicted the Oscars dustup. In reality, the reference to Smith hitting Rock was only added on March 31, 2022.
Other similarly false claims appeared on Facebook in English here, here and here, and in Spanish here.
If a Facebook post is edited after it is published, changes can be viewed by clicking on "View edit history" in a drop down menu that can be accessed from the top right corner.
AFP Fact Check has debunked other inaccurate claims related to the Smith-Rock incident here and here.
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