After Trump Shooting, A Dangerous Flood of Disinformation

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BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 13: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a shooting at a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Posted: July 15th, 2024

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — Anyone doubting the power and danger of false narratives in 2024 America need only have spent a few minutes scrolling on social media platforms in the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

Depending where you looked, the attack was orchestrated by the White House; it was the far-left group Antifa; or it was no assassination attempt at all, because it had been staged by the Trump campaign itself, to cast the former president as a martyr and a hero.

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