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Viral image stated on June 4, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Photo shows “the Sandy Hook girls that did not die like they said they did!”

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 13, 2024

Viral image stated on March 13, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Photos show former CNN correspondent Barbara Starr “on the scene as a witness crisis actor,” proving mass shootings were staged.

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 22, 2024

X posts stated on November 20, 2022 in a tweet:

The Club Q shooting was a “false flag.”

By Andy Nguyen • November 22, 2022

Instagram posts stated on October 16, 2022 in an Instagram post:

A video shows an actor “getting into character before his press interview less than 24 hours after the supposed killing of his 6-year-old daughter."

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 20, 2022

Greg Gutfeld stated on June 23, 2022 in a TV segment:

No one “with a concealed carry permit ever committed a mass shooting."

By Bill McCarthy • June 28, 2022

Ted Nugent stated on June 14, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Three mass shootings were meant to distract from Hillary Clinton controversies.

By Jeff Cercone • June 16, 2022

Facebook posts stated on May 24, 2022 in Facebook post:

This image shows the victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 25, 2022

X posts stated on May 24, 2022 in a Facebook post:

The shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde County, Texas, was a false flag.

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 25, 2022

Viral image stated on March 22, 2021 in a tweet:

These 11 mass shootings involved an AR-15-style weapon.

By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2021

Roland Gutierrez stated on July 18, 2018 in a campaign email blast:

Says Pete Gallego canceled a "planned meeting with the families of Sandy Hook victims."

By Jasper Scherer • July 27, 2018

Bloggers stated on March 14, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

Shoes on the Capitol lawn represent 7,182 students who were killed in U.S. schools since 2012.

By Allison Graves • March 16, 2018

Ted Cruz stated on March 7, 2018 in an interview on CNN's "New Day":

"The Obama administration had cut $300 million from school safety."

By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2018

Everytown for Gun Safety stated on February 22, 2018 in a tweet:

Says NRA head Wayne LaPierre said, "We believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America’s schools. Period."

By Jon Greenberg • February 23, 2018

Jeff Greenfield stated on February 14, 2018 in a tweet:

"In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the U.S., there have been 18 school shootings since January 1."

By Tom Kertscher • February 15, 2018

Hillary Clinton stated on September 1, 2016 in x:

Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."

By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • September 1, 2016

Courageous Conservatives PAC stated on November 6, 2015 in a video ad posted online:

"After Sandy Hook, Ted Cruz stopped Obama’s push for new gun control laws."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 13, 2015

Greg Steube stated on April 2, 2015 in a Florida House judiciary committee hearing:

"You know how many children in the history of the United States have died in a fire (at school)? Zero."

By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • April 6, 2015

Everytown for Gun Safety stated on December 10, 2014 in a recent report:

Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.

By April Hunt • December 19, 2014

Everytown for Gun Safety stated on June 11, 2014 in an infographic that went viral:

There have been 74 "school shootings in America since Sandy Hook."

By Lauren Carroll • June 13, 2014

Scott Walker stated on January 10, 2013 in a news conference:

"We just had someone last week in Neenah near a school kill someone with a bow and arrow."

By James B. Nelson • January 28, 2013

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By Amy Sherman • February 16, 2024

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What counts as a “mass shooting”? The definition varies

By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 14, 2023

Uvalde shooting Robb Elementary School sign with flowers

How many mass shootings have occurred since Uvalde tragedy?

By Nusaiba Mizan • June 10, 2022

Candles are lit at dawn at a memorial site for Uvalde victims on May 27.

Fact-checking misinformation about the Uvalde school shooting

By Madison Czopek • May 27, 2022

Why do some people think mass shootings are staged every time?

By Daniel Funke • August 8, 2019

Alex Jones said Sandy Hook slayings ‘pretty much didn’t happen’

By W. Gardner Selby • April 18, 2018

How are school shootings defined?

By Chris Nichols • February 28, 2018

What we know about mass shootings

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • February 15, 2018

How many school shooting incidents has the U.S. had since Sandy Hook? PolitiFact Oregon

By Dana Tims • June 11, 2014

George Floyd did not die of a drug overdose. Why does misinformation about his death persist?

By Madison Czopek • May 23, 2025

Ginni Thomas and Justice Clarence Thomas 9-20-19 at White House

A fact-checker’s guide to Ginni Thomas’ texts to Trump’s chief of staff

By Amy Sherman, Bill McCarthy • March 25, 2022

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By Bill McCarthy • June 30, 2021

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Fact-checking J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan in Ohio Senate debate

By Amy Sherman • October 18, 2022

The history of the AR-15 and how it became a symbol of American gun culture

By Sara Swann • June 28, 2022

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By Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman • December 11, 2018

Fact-checking claims in California’s U.S. Senate race

By Chris Nichols • October 18, 2018

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