Debunking 3 Viral Rumors About the Texas Shooting

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Rumors about the gunman and what had taken place spread widely online — often with easily debunked evidence or none at all — almost immediately after the first official reports about the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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1. No, the shooting was not a staged ‘false flag’ operation.

Hours after the attack Tuesday, far-right figures spread misinformation claiming that the shooting was a “false flag” attack. Among their unfounded claims were that the shooting had been orchestrated to draw local law enforcement away from the border, allowing criminals and drugs to cross into the United States, and that gun-control advocates had organized the tragedy to stoke public outrage.

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2. No, there is no evidence that the gunman was transgender.

Hours after the attack, a post on the fringe online message board 4chan circulated claiming that the gunman was transgender. Numerous photographs falsely claiming to show the gunman wearing women’s clothing were attached.

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3. No, the gunman was not an undocumented immigrant.

False claims that the gunman was born outside the U.S. began to circulate within hours of the shooting. Spread largely on white nationalist Telegram channels and Gab accounts, the claims alleged that he was an immigrant in the U.S. illegally, even after authorities including Roland Gutierrez, a Texas state senator, confirmed that the gunman was born in North Dakota.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/debunking-3-viral-rumors-texas-115631615.html

[SergeStorms]

1. Important facts.

The reich-wing always tries to frame any controversy to fit their twisted world view.
It's important that the truth be told, and the media should be on top of that. They won't be, of course.

Truth and facts don't sit well with the right. They never favor their narrative. They'd much rather fabricate lies and keep repeating those lies until their slow-witted supporters totally believe them.

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2. And it wasn't space aliens

Seriously, that idiocy like this has to be refuted is strong evidence that America's right-wing has completely lost touch with reality.

But here we are with U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) getting his "facts" from 4chan and tweeting it out for the wing-nut universe and then make no apology.

One other thing we have learned - debunking this nonsense does not have any effect on the cult that embraces it. They will just double-down on the lie and continue to spread it.

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3. K&R