Houston Police Attempt to Link ‘Drug Spiking’ to Fatal Astroworld Concert
Networks uncritically took the local police chief’s claim as “confirmation.”
Networks uncritically took the local police chief’s claim as “confirmation.”
A viral video of an altercation at a Houston party has been widely and inaccurately blamed on the Black Lives Matter movement — and a resulting GoFundMe raised several times its goal.
On April 26 2019, Facebook page “The Trump Train” shared the following post (archived here), claiming that it showed a crowd of a few dozen people in Houston ten minutes before Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) was scheduled to speak: Across the top of an image of a few dozen people, the text read: 4/24/19 – Bernie’s …
A graphic warning about a potential future climate-related disaster was doctored and passed off as a more recent incident.