“PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — 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.”
“Unfounded claims that the gunman was an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, or transgender, quickly emerged. They were accompanied by familiar conspiracy theories suggesting the entire shooting was somehow staged.”
“In the hours after the shooting, posts falsely claiming the gunman was living in the country illegally went viral, with some users adding embellishments, including that he was on the run from Border Patrol. He was an illegal alien wanted for murder from El Salvador. This is blood on Biden’s hands and should have never happened.”
“Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar fit both unfounded claims about Ramos in a single now-deleted tweet that also misspelled his name. “It’s a transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos,” Gosar tweeted Tuesday night.”
“According to disinformation expert Jaime Longoria it is a tactic that serves two purposes: It avoids real conversations about the issue (of gun violence), and it gives people who don’t want to face reality a patsy, it gives them someone to blame”
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-s...acy-theories-8d9ac3b61420c6542b11d0da3f0b3a16
What we have here, just like the Big Lie script, is planting the innuendoes, providing enough for the right to run with conspiracies. It doesn’t matter that none of it is true, again, just like the Big Lie, if you say it loud enough and long enough, the base will believe it, regardless of validity
“Unfounded claims that the gunman was an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, or transgender, quickly emerged. They were accompanied by familiar conspiracy theories suggesting the entire shooting was somehow staged.”
“In the hours after the shooting, posts falsely claiming the gunman was living in the country illegally went viral, with some users adding embellishments, including that he was on the run from Border Patrol. He was an illegal alien wanted for murder from El Salvador. This is blood on Biden’s hands and should have never happened.”
“Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar fit both unfounded claims about Ramos in a single now-deleted tweet that also misspelled his name. “It’s a transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos,” Gosar tweeted Tuesday night.”
“According to disinformation expert Jaime Longoria it is a tactic that serves two purposes: It avoids real conversations about the issue (of gun violence), and it gives people who don’t want to face reality a patsy, it gives them someone to blame”
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-s...acy-theories-8d9ac3b61420c6542b11d0da3f0b3a16
What we have here, just like the Big Lie script, is planting the innuendoes, providing enough for the right to run with conspiracies. It doesn’t matter that none of it is true, again, just like the Big Lie, if you say it loud enough and long enough, the base will believe it, regardless of validity