Will Smith slapping comic Chris Rock onstage at Sunday's 94th Academy Awards was a second that was arduous to imagine.
However false information concerning the surprising confrontation that upended one in all Hollywood's largest nights got here in a while social media, together with a fabricated letter of apology attributed to Rock and a miscaptioned superstar response photograph that has change into an web meme.
Here is a more in-depth have a look at claims which have unfold extensively on-line.
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CLAIM: Rock issued a public apology for his joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head, saying he "crossed a line that I should not have and paid the large worth of my status as a renown comic."
THE FACTS: The apology, which included a number of spelling errors, is pretend. Rock issued no such apology, a consultant for the comic instructed The Related Press in an e-mail Tuesday afternoon.
The fabricated apology attributed to Rock amassed tens of millions of views throughout social media platforms.
"As a comic it may be obscure which strains are to be crossed and which of them aren't," the pretend assertion learn. "Final evening I crossed a line that I should not have and paid the large worth of my status as a renown comic. Comedy isn't about poking enjoyable at or making lite of individuals with main ordeals taking place of their lives. Comedy is about utilizing actual life circumstances to create laughter and produce mild to an in any other case darkish world."
The bogus assertion continued with direct apologies to Pinkett Smith, Smith and the remainder of their household, and a name for forgiveness over time.
However Leslie Sloane, a publicist for Rock, confirmed in an e-mail that the apology was pretend. She didn't reply to a query about whether or not Rock deliberate to apologize.
Smith walked onstage, slapped Rock after which returned to his seat, twice shouting on the comic to "get my spouse's title out your (expletive) mouth." Smith was reacting to a joke Rock made about Pinkett Smith's shaved head, saying he could not wait to see "G.I. Jane 2." Pinkett Smith has spoken publicly about her analysis with alopecia, a illness that causes hair loss.
Smith went on to win greatest actor for his position as Richard Williams, father of Venus and Serena, in "King Richard." Throughout his five-minute acceptance speech, Smith spoke about defending his household. He additionally apologized to the academy. On Monday, he made a stronger apology on Instagram and thru his publicist, together with an apology to Rock.
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CLAIM: A photograph reveals actress Nicole Kidman gasping in response to Smith slapping Rock on the Oscars.
THE FACTS: The photograph was captured hours earlier than Smith slapped Rock, through the non-televised portion of the awards ceremony.
Based on the photographer who captured the picture, Kidman was responding to the sight of her fellow nominee for greatest actress, Jessica Chastain, who later received the award.
The photograph of Kidman sitting within the viewers on the Oscars -- arm outstretched and mouth open -- unfold shortly on-line moments after Smith and Rock's confrontation.
"'The Slap' was so highly effective it made Nicole Kidman's face transfer for the primary time in 11 years," one Twitter person wrote, sharing the photograph of Kidman that has now change into a preferred meme. "Nicole Kidman reacting to (asterisk)that slap(asterisk) is all of us this morning scrolling by way of Twitter," an Irish journal wrote on Instagram.
However because the New York Journal weblog Vulture reported on Monday, the photograph was truly captured through the non-televised a part of the ceremony, hours earlier than the slap occurred. It had appeared on Twitter as early as 7:34 p.m. EDT. The televised portion of the Oscars started at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
"Nicole Kidman reacts to seeing fellow nominee Jessica Chastain contained in the Dolby Theatre on Sunday evening," reads a Los Angeles Instances caption for the picture, which was captured by L.A. Instances photographer Myung Chun. Chun confirmed in an e-mail to the AP that his photograph metadata reveals he snapped the picture at 7:19 p.m. EDT, which was about three hours earlier than the encounter between Smith and Rock.
"It appeared to me that Nicole Kidman was reacting to seeing Jessica Chastain throughout the room through the non-televised occasion," he said, including: "She reached out with each arms and waved her fingers at her. Shortly thereafter, Chastain came visiting to fulfill Kidman and her husband Keith City."
Chastain went on to win greatest actress for her position in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," through which she portrays the rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.
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-- Related Press author Sophia Tulp in Atlanta contributed to this report.
That is a part of AP's effort to deal with extensively shared misinformation, together with work with outdoors corporations and organizations so as to add factual context to deceptive content material that's circulating on-line.
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