The Onion, the New York Times, and Mass Shootings
The day after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, The Onion‘s cyclical mass shooting piece took over its front page — as a New York Times abstract followed suit in reality.
Mass Shootings
Two Killed in Kenosha During Racial Violence Inflamed in Facebook Groups
The alleged gunman was arrested and charged the morning after.
Nevada Man Charged with Plotting Homophobic and Anti-Semitic Shooting Attacks
Online chat logs reportedly showed 23-year-old Conor Climo using “extensive” racist slurs.
Was the Thousand Oaks Shooter Identified as a Man of Middle Eastern Descent?
Mere hours after a gunman entered a nightclub in Thousand Oaks, California, murdering at least twelve people before shooting himself, the social media disinformation machine and its usual array of bots and paid trolls began to peddle unverified information about the suspect’s identity: This was quickly picked up and disseminated by the usual disreputable sites …
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David Hogg Graduated in 2015, Didn't Attend Parkland High School-Fiction!
David Hogg Graduated in 2015, Didn’t Attend Parkland High School-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: David Hogg graduated from Redondo Shores High School in 2015. Hogg didn’t graduate from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and he wasn’t present for the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 people dead. The Truth: David Hogg didn’t graduate in 2015 — …
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Maxine Waters Comment About Armed Security Detail and Gun Control-Fiction!
False claims that Maxine Waters tweeted about gun control and armed security came from an imposter account.
Is Parkland Shooting Survivor David Hogg a ‘Crisis Actor’?
The attacks against Hogg are part of a right-wing playbook to undermine survivors.
Las Vegas Shooting Witness Who Identified 2nd Shooter Found Dead-Fiction!
Kimberley Suchomel survived the Las Vegas mass shooting and died a week later, but she wasn’t a witness who identified a second shooter.