Steve Irwin's daughter, Bindi, is not dead despite the fact that her death is now trending on the Internet. According to Newsmax, the term "Steve Irwin Daughter Dies" began trending online leading people to falsely believe that the 14-year-old girl was dead. The horrible rumors are false and in fact the young girl tweeted a video to her followers the day before the news of her fake death began trending.
"The apparently unintentional false rumor, which found its way to mainstream news websites like MSN, was apparently caused by Internet aggregators who combined trending terms with old news," Newsmax reports.
Reportedly interest in the girl was sparked by her new movie "Return to Nim's Island," about a girl named Nim (played by Irwin) who must help a boy save his island from poachers trying to steal the animals. People were also said to be searching for her because she is reportedly got into an argument with Hillary Clinton's organization about an essay she wrote on the world's population.
The Inquisitr reports that her mom Terri Irwin said Clinton's organization edited the essay which had upset Bindi.
"It's interesting that she was asked to write an essay about the environment and included the consideration of population (growth) and they returned her essay edited and completely edited that out," she told reporters at the time. "So Bindi wrote to Hillary Clinton's organization and said 'what happened to freedom of speech? This is my opinion and I don't want that edited out."
It's not clear how exactly the death rumor got started but it is being reported that instead of searching for the girls name they instead typed in "Steve Irwin Daughter." Most of the search results brought up her father, Steve Irwin, and his untimely death which might have confused people.
Steve Irwin, a wildlife expert and TV personality, died in September 2006 while snorkeling at the Batt Reef near Port Douglas, Queensland when a stingray stung him in the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene. At the time of the accident, he was reportedly filming a scene for his daughter's television show "Bindi the Jungle Girl."
Bindi, who was only eight when her father died, has followed in her father's footsteps and is currently serving as a wildlife conservationist and an attendant at the Australian Zoo.
