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Some social media posts are sharing images of a person wearing a skirt and wrongly claiming that they show Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old authorities have identified as the shooter at Robb Elementary in Uvalde County, Texas.
These photos were taken from the Reddit account of a person who identifies as a transgender girl.
These Facebook posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
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We separately looked into claims that Ramos is transgender and found no evidence to corroborate them.
Claims that these photos of a transgender girl show Ramos are False.
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PolitiFact, Fact-checking misinformation about the Uvalde, Texas school shooter, May 25, 2022
Matt Binder tweet, May 24, 2022
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