Be aware of how Trumpsters are muddying the Florida school shooting story.

[mainer]

Go on Twitter and you'll see the following false narratives being promoted:

-- Claim: The shooter was a Dreamer named "Nicholas de Jesus Cruz," a registered Democrat.
Truth: that's the wrong guy. The real shooter is Nikolas Jacob Cruz, who has a different birthdate.
(I think Nicholas de Jesus Cruz should sue everyone who's currently making his life hell.)

-- Claim: the shooter belonged to Antifa and there's a photo of him wearing an Antifa tee-shirt
Truth: The guy with the shirt is not even the same man.

-- Claim: The shooter is a Muslim sympathizer who wrote "allah akbar" on his website.
Truth: The shooter was anti-Muslim and wrote a diatribe wanting to know what "allah akbar" means.

-- Claim: The shooter didn't really wear a MAGA hat, as pictured on Instagram. The photo is a fake.
Truth: The Instagram account has been verified, and Cruz's own classmates say they remember him wearing the hat to school.

-- Claim: The entire shooting is a fake and crisis actors were involved. How do they know? Because not enough dead bodies are seen in the videos. As "proof," there's a Youtube video interview with one of the "crisis actors," a blonde girl acting very unperturbed.

Truth: I suspect the blonde girl in the video is herself an actor playing a crisis actor. We're back in Sandy Hook denial territory here, folks. The dead kids never even existed.

[Nevernose]

1. His quote on antifa

“Im going watch them sheep fall f*ck antifa i wish to kill as many as i can,” on a Youtube video titled “Antifa Gun Club.”

[Blue_Tires]

2. Never forget: A lot of these Trumpsters are either Russian trollbots

or they're stealing talking points from Russian trollbots...

[R B Garr]

5. Absolutely. That amplifies the already crazy, done by

design to make themselves appear more mainstream.

[mainer]

3. The rightwing disinformation all wrapped up in one glorious twitter post:

A must-read takedown of InfoWars disinformation:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/964187511017869316.html

[NewJeffCT]

4. This happens with EVERY mass shooting

After reports of a mass shooting hit the media, you can be guaranteed that three things will happen:

1) Groups of RWers online will immediately link reported shooter to Democrats/liberals/leftists if they are not Muslim.
2) Alex Jones will claim it's a Leftist/Democratic False Flag operation.
3) Republican politicians will say it's too soon to talk about gun control and will send their thoughts & prayers.

[Corgigal]

6. Gun nuts

Being nuts. Info war makes money and clicks off the nuts. They may even know the truth, but like the lies. Until it's their kids school, and they way it's going. It may well be.

Then they get to drink themselves to death.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. twits

Twitler and his Russian allies have proven twitter is, at best, unreliable. Might as well be graffiti sprayed on a wall.

[world wide wally]

8. Has Trump retweeted their bullshit yet?

[Still In Wisconsin]

10. No, because Fox News (A.K.A. Trump's daily briefing) hasn't reported it yet. n/t

I'm sure Hannity will be right on it too.

[IluvPitties]

9. He was a white nationalist terrorist... in other words

part of Trumpolini's base.