Thousands have unwittingly shared baseless conspiracy theories from trolls who want to push lies to attract traffic.
Accurate news stories about mass shootings have attracted eyeballs but algorithms have also spurred baseless conspiracy theories from trolls who want to push lies to attract traffic. And thousands have unwittingly shared them on Facebook, Twitter and other sites.
Others misidentified a shooting victim as “Bernie Gores” – a made-up name paired with an image of a YouTuber who has been wrongly linked to other major news events, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine. After 20 children and six staff members were killed, InfoWars founder Alex Jones falsely claimed the Newtown casualties were “crisis actors” – people who are paid or volunteer to play disaster victims.
“When you spread this stuff, you want to be seen as in the know,” he said, even though the information is demonstrably false or misleading.Similarly, false claims about the recent spread of monkeypox – a rare disease related to smallpox – borrow from Covid-19 misinformation.
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