Denver Post · Jan 15
An apparent AI-generated Facebook post claimed a Broncos reporter died. He doesn’t understand why.
Mile High Sports reporter Cody Roark sits for a photo on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, at Broncos Park Powered by CommonSpirit in Centennial, Colo. (Photo by Timothy Hurst/The Denver Post)On the morning of Dec. 28, 31-year-old Cody Roark poured himself an espresso, sat on the couch with his phone, and learned that he was dead.
Some two hours away in Hugo, Roark’s coworker Doug Ottewill was helping his 79-year-old mother Helen set up a new iPad he’d bought her for Christmas. Ottewill showed her how to log into Facebook. Helen scrolled. And then came across a graphic of a young man overlayed with a large R.I.P. insignia.
“Oh, this is sad,” Helen told her son. “Do you know this guy?”
