Conspiracy theories swirl that White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting was 'staged'
Social media has been flooded with conspiracy theories after a gunman's thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, with both left-wing and right-wing accounts claiming – without evidence – that the attack was "staged". By midday on Sunday, the term "staged" appeared in over 300,000 posts on X, according to social media analytics firm TweetBinder.
Social media has been flooded with conspiracy theories after a gunman's thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, with both left-wing and right-wing accounts claiming – without evidence – that the attack was "staged". By midday on Sunday, the term "staged" appeared in over 300,000 posts on X, according to social media analytics firm TweetBinder.
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