“Probably won’t hear this on CNN,” one person tweeted. These lies continued circulating in right-wing circles on Wednesday, long after being debunked. People are using the lie to spread transphobia.
He hasn’t made a statement correcting the lie.īy then, the damage was done. He falsely claimed that he was both transgender and an undocumented immigrant. The Daily Dot found her Reddit account and matched photos she posted weeks ago to those being circulated by right-wing figures and on platforms frequented by the far-right and falsely attributed to Ramos.īut Gosar took the lie about the shooter’s identity a step further. Mashable’s Matt Binder reported that some of the photos originated from a trans woman’s Reddit account.Īfter her photo began being falsely attributed to the shooter, the redditor posted a current photo to definitively establish that it wasn’t her. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.).Īnonymous users on the troll haven 4chan simply grabbed photos of any trans woman who had a passing resemblance to Ramos and claimed that it was him. From there it swiftly made its way to Rep. The false rumor reportedly began on 4chan.
Ramos, who was male, was killed by officers responding to the shooting. Within hours of the shooting, right-wing figures began spreading a lie that the killer, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was a transgender woman. A mass shooter killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Tuesday saw one of the worst school shootings in United States history to date.
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