Fact-checking misinformation about the Uvalde school shooting
Facts And Fact Checking,Uvalde Shooting,Misinformation And Disinformation,Violence In America
Friday, May 27, was supposed to be the first full day of summer break for the students and staff of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Instead, it marked the end of a brutal week marred by loss, grief, heartbreak and anger, after 19 children and two teachers were killed at the school on May 24 by an 18-year-old shooter.
The attack was the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.
The shooting became the focus of a wave of viral misinformation, fueled, in part, by the fact that details about the shooting and the police response have conflicted or changed over time.
