Why do fake news websites exist? Or is it fake news that Bridges has passed away?

Family is in mourning, Jeff Bridges has just passed away after a long battle with cancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRX5SacOftc

Nothing else seems to corroborate this, and it takes a lot of gall, and should be legally prosecutable to lie or pass off fake news about something like this.

Googling Jeff Bridges' health I get:
Jeff Bridges shared that his health is “great” three years after a scare put him at death's door. The “Big Lebowski” star, 74, said Monday night that being so sick was a “learning experience,” one that he is grateful to have put behind him.

Which is a relief, since I want to see the follow on seasons of his series "The Old Man".