“RIP Jimmy Carter! Gone To Heaven To Be With Jesus and His Beloved Wife Rosalyn (sic) Carter!” Republican Senator Mike Lee reportedly posted with the caption: “My thoughts and prayers are with his family”.

However, there’s no such statement on the official website of the Carter Center, a not-for-profit founded by the former president and his late wife Rosalynn.

The statement was traced to an X post with the caption: “BREAKING—Former President Jimmy Carter has passed away.

He was 99 years old.

” Errors and bizarre quotes in the document indicate that it’s not authentic and wasn’t posted by Carter’s family.

For example, the second paragraph criticizes Mr.

Carter’s single term in office, saying he “achieved significant foreign policy accomplishments including: selling the United States out to Panama…”.

Words such as ‘administration’ and ‘being’ have also been misspelled as ‘administation’ and ‘bweing’.

The document includes several vulgar quotes about the late Rosalynn Carter and another former US first lady, Nancy Reagan.

It also claims that Mr.

Carter’s son Chip said: “He will be sorely missed not only by our family but by the American people and our enemies around the world who thrive today because of his peace-through-weakness agenda”.

The original X post reveals that the statement is a hoax in the image description, which can be accessed by clicking on the “ALT” tab on the picture.

“President Carter is still alive and in hospice care.

This was an experiment to see how gullible people are to sensationalist headlines,” it says.

Several hours after publishing the original post, the user posted again, saying: “Big thank you to everyone who fell for this.

Particularly for proving me right: people only read headlines.

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