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  • AP FACT FOCUS: No ‘incredible rise’ in transgender shooters

    03/30/2023 1:25:22 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 70 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 30, 2023 | By SOPHIA TULP
    Moments after the assailant who killed six people at a Nashville private school was identified as transgender, a baseless narrative emerged: that there has been an incredible rise in transgender or nonbinary mass shooters in recent years. Some pundits and political influencers on social media went further, suggesting that movements for trans rights are radicalizing activists into terrorists. The data tells a different story, according to gender and criminology experts. Mass casualty shootings perpetrated by someone identifying as trans or nonbinary are rare, and in fact, those groups are far more likely to be the victims of violence. Here’s a...
  • Deceptive videos used to link athlete deaths to COVID shots

    12/26/2021 6:51:37 AM PST · by David Chase · 307 replies
    The Associated Press, Breitbart ^ | December, 17th, 2021 | ANGELO FICHERA and SOPHIA TULP
    Jake West was a seemingly healthy 17-year-old when he collapsed during high school football practice in Indiana and died of sudden cardiac arrest. A video widely shared online falsely suggests COVID-19 vaccination is to blame, weaving headlines about him into a rapid-fire compilation of news coverage about athletes collapsing. The vaccine played no role in West’s death — he died from an undiagnosed heart condition in 2013, seven years before the pandemic began. “My tragedy of losing my son is always upsetting, and to think that somebody would use that for their gain is very upsetting,” she said. “It’s mind-boggling...