A police officer watches as a body is taken from the Gold Spa massage parlor after a shooting, late Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Unraveling viral disinformation and explaining where it came from, the harm it's causing, and what we should do about it.
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Over on Parler, some users were claiming that the murder spree was orchestrated by President Joe Biden in order to introduce more restrictive gun control lesiglation.“Biden’s CIA-managed FALSE FLAG attacks designed to provide a justification to confiscate guns and demonise Patriots, have begun!,” one Parler user wrote on Wednesday.Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in the U.S. last March, there have been 3,800 reports of "hate incidents" against Asian Americans, and more than 400 reports of physical assault, according to the group Stop AAPI Hate in a report published on the same day as the Atlanta shootings.