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Florida school shooting: hoaxes, doctored tweets and Russian bots spread false news

The hours after the mass shooting at a Florida high school followed a now familiar trajectory on the Internet: web sites published hastily sourced conclusions about the shooter, and pranksters shared false photos of victims and the suspect.

But the aftermath of the killing of 17 in Parkland, Fla. Wednesday took a slightly different turn this time — one reporter's tweets were doctored and retweeted to make it appear she had been asking slanted questions. Another tweet making the rounds pretended to show a popular news website's article. It had been doctored, too.

These added to the more standard fabricated stories and hoaxes that have become a common occurrence in the wake of a national tragedy.

Miami Herald reporter Alex Harris, who was covering the shooting Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, had corresponded on Twitter with students at the school who were tweeting about what was happening while the shooter hadn't been apprehended. Some people criticized her for trying to communicate with the students when they were still in danger, an action she defended as essential to reporting — but acknowledges as a point of discussion.

Then there were the fake tweets. In at least two incidents, her tweets were doctored and retweeted to suggest she asked students if they had photos or videos of dead bodies or knew whether the shooter was white.
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Sheriff Joe said:
Get, sorry professor union boy.
You are starting to act like e, is you hair still wet?
Queer.
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E is the only poster in here that says his Republican that has stuck to his guns (pun intended). The rest of you pantywaists have gone off the deep end and away from American idealism for the sake of, "a win".

. . . and no that is not an endorsement of Hillary, you can't get off that easy. I'm referring to holding those elected to account for their actions not just making excuses for them cuz it's your, "team".
 
Hüsker Dü said:
E is the only poster in here that says his Republican that has stuck to his guns (pun intended). The rest of you pantywaists have gone off the deep end and away from American idealism for the sake of, "a win".

. . . and no that is not an endorsement of Hillary, you can't get off that easy. I'm referring to holding those elected to account for their actions not just making excuses for them cuz it's your, "team".
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"that says his republican that has stuck"
Does this make sense in nutterville?
 
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