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Search results for "There is coordination of messaging and synchronization around the WHCD shooting"

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Instagram posts stated on March 28, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Three rockets NASA is launching during the April 8 solar eclipse is “a ritual causing mass psychosis.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 2, 2024
Facebook posts stated on June 15, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says news stories referencing 322 and COVID-19 are proof cases are being “synchronized”
By Eric Litke• June 16, 2020
X posts stated on May 26, 2022 in a tweet:
“These mass shootings happen so much that Ted Cruz really got a template ready to tweet whenever they occur.”
By Samantha Putterman• May 27, 2022
Michael Caputo stated on September 13, 2020 in a Facebook video:
"There are hit squads being trained all over this country” to violently oppose a second term for President Donald Trump.
By Bill McCarthy• September 17, 2020
Facebook posts stated on August 04, 2019 in Facebook posts:
The El Paso and Dayton shootings were "false flag" attacks coordinated by the "deep state."
By Daniel Funke• August 5, 2019
Michael McCaul stated on May 10, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."  
By Jon Greenberg• May 14, 2015
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
Facebook posts stated on August 02, 2020 in Facebook and Twitter posts:
Says BLM activist Sasha Johnson tweeted, “The white man will not be our equal but our slave.”
By Michael Majchrowicz• May 28, 2021
Kelly Ayotte stated on September 18, 2013 in an interview with CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper":
Mental health provisions related to mass shootings "got over 90 votes in the Senate."
By Steve Gilbert• September 24, 2013
X posts stated on October 04, 2013 in messages on Twitter:
The Obama administration shut down the Amber Alert program because of the government shutdown.
By Jon Greenberg• October 7, 2013
Chain message stated on March 16, 2020 in a text:
Donald Trump is “announcing tomorrow that the US is going into quarantine for the next 14 days.”
By Daniel Funke• March 17, 2020
Chain message stated on June 02, 2020 in a text:
Text from someone “connected” to Raleigh police: “antifa may be heading into the wealthy neighborhoods tonight to take what should be theirs.”
By Paul Specht• June 5, 2020
Facebook posts stated on July 02, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“TEA is allowing online learning with attendance stipulations but will not fund school districts if they do not open their schools...If schools do not open and are not funded there will be no more teachers or school at all.”
By • July 23, 2020
Ted Cruz stated on March 07, 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
Project Republic stated on March 28, 2018 in on a alternative news site:
"Emma Gonzalez bullied school shooter, isn’t sorry; then retweets message blaming ‘white boys’ entitlement’ as cause of all school shootings"
By Mica Soellner• March 30, 2018
Facebook posts stated on September 21, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says after Australia passed a "new law" that forced gun owners to give up over 640,000 firearms, the country saw a dramatic increase in homicides, assaults and robberies.
By Samantha Putterman• January 13, 2020
Instagram posts stated on October 10, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“There isn't a single video or photo suggesting that 250 people were killed (by Hamas) at a concert or that a mass shooting took place” on Oct. 7 in Israel.
By Loreben Tuquero• October 13, 2023
Donald Trump stated on June 04, 2017 in a tweet:
"At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’ "
By Katie Sanders• June 4, 2017
Dana Loesch stated on February 25, 2018 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
In comparing mass shootings, "France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama."  
By Jon Greenberg• February 27, 2018
Scott Walker stated on February 20, 2013 in a speech:
"In Wisconsin, only half of all the adults with serious psychological distress received mental health treatment or medication."
By Tom Kertscher• March 8, 2013

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By Bill McCarthy, Amy Sherman• March 25, 2022

Hoaxes, fake news about the Las Vegas massacre

By Louis Jacobson, Emily Tanaka, Miriam Valverde• October 2, 2017

In the weeks after El Paso and Dayton, mass shooting rumors spread on Snapchat and iMessage

By Daniel Funke• August 26, 2019

How Russian trolls exploited Parkland mass shooting on social media

By John Kruzel• February 22, 2018

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: Online smear machine tries to take down Parkland students

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

Fact-checking false claims about shooter’s identity in Charlie Kirk shooting

By Grace Abels, Maria Briceño, Loreben Tuquero• September 11, 2025

Democratic fight over DHS funding could lead to government shutdown. How could it play out?

By Louis Jacobson• January 29, 2026

Fact-checking misinformation after the El Paso, Dayton shootings

By Daniel Funke, John Kruzel• August 5, 2019

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By Jon Greenberg• May 29, 2020

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By PolitiFact Staff • May 18, 2018

The facts on mass shootings in the United States

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By Samantha Putterman• April 9, 2021

Fact-checking Malcolm Jenkins' posters on prisons and police shootings

By Manuela Tobias• June 7, 2018

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