Noam Chomsky, renowned linguist, is still alive, according to his wife

The Associated Press is reporting that Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, the widow of renowned linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, claims that reports that the linguist and activist had passed away on Tuesday are false.

In response to an email inquiry from the Associated Press on Tuesday, she said, “No, it is false.”

Valeria Chomsky revealed to the AP last week that her father, Noam Chomsky, 95, had spent a year in a Brazilian hospital recuperating from a stroke.

Chomsky, however, was released on Tuesday to complete his treatment at home, according to a statement from the Beneficencia Portuguesa hospital in São Paulo.

Chomsky was trending on X earlier on Tuesday as erroneous rumors of his passing circulated. Both Jacobin and The New Statesman carried obituaries for Chomsky; however, the former headlined its piece “Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky” rather than “We Remember Noam Chomsky.”

The New Statesman completely removed a piece written by Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece. Diario do Centro do Mundo, a Brazilian news outlet, similarly removed and corrected the item that had announced Chomsky’s passing.

Since 2015, the Chomskys have lived in Brazil. For many years, Noam Chomsky taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is well-known to millions of people for his criticisms of American foreign policy.

He enrolled in the University of Arizona’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Tucson in 2017.