Matt Damon has lashed out at “lazy” journalists for spreading a “silly” story claiming he died.

The 38-year-old Oscar winner used the Toronto Film Festival press conference to slam the journalists who reported that he died in a fatal fall off a cliff while hiking in California last week. Matt believes reporters purposely circulated the online rumor after failing to read the bogus press release thoroughly.

“My publicist got all of these phone calls from very reputable sources. I got forwarded the story, which, if you read it, it just gets sillier and sillier, and, by the end, the guy who’s said to be my agent is quoting the lyrics to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” Matt fumed. “And yet CNN called and The Boston Globe called, all of these reputable news sources are checking if it’’s true.”

“My publicist’’s like, ‘Did you even read the story?’ Misinformation is quicker because you motherfuckers are lazy! That’’s how these things spread like wildfire.”