Right Wing/Russian Troll Farms Instantly Start Planting Fake News After Texas School Shooting

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Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle

And now, the 22nd incident of mass murder by gunfire at a US school since the beginning of this year.

More people have been killed in schools this year than American soldiers killed while serving in the military.

As usual, Republicans owned by the NRA are all over the place mouthing empty words about meaningless “thoughts and prayers.”

And the right wing/Russian troll farms instantly leapt into action to paint the shooter as a Hillary Clinton supporter linked to Antifa, creating several fraudulent Facebook pages and pumping out propaganda on Twitter.

UPDATE at 5/18/18 12:22:30 pm by Charles Johnson

Conspiracy peddler Mike Cernovich jumped at the opportunity to grift, of course. It’s interesting how far right conspiracy con men always seem to start grifting simultaneously with the appearance of fake accounts and Russian trolls.

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