Texas school shooting already generating "horrifying" conspiracy theories
It happened after Sandy Hook, Parkland, Orlando and Buffalo. Uvalde is no exception.
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It happened after Sandy Hook, Parkland, Orlando and Buffalo. Uvalde is no exception.
By now it's as predictable as the calls for thoughts and prayers: A mass shooting leaves many dead, and wild conspiracy theories and misinformation about the carnage soon follow. Within hours of Tuesday's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, another rash began as internet users spread baseless claims about the man named as the gunman and his possible motives.
Misinformation and conspiracy theories about Tuesday's deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, began to spread online only hours after the carnage
‘It gives people who don’t want to face reality a patsy, it gives them someone to blame’
Unfounded claims emerge that shooter was transgender or in US illegally