'False flag' conspiracies about the Uvalde and Buffalo mass shootings are already big on far-right

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Far-right conspiracists have spread false claims that the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings were hoaxes.

False flag claims are often used to push against gun control or frame incidents as government plots.

Experts told Insider these false flag accusations have increased and mutated in recent years.

Almost immediately after news broke of the deadly mass shootings this month in Buffalo and Uvalde, far-right extremists and QAnon influencers began spreading false claims that these killings were a hoax. The reaction has become common among conspiracy theorists, who have repeatedly taken tragedies and distorted them to fit their extremist narratives.

The day of the Buffalo shooting on May 14, when a white supremacist killed 10 people at a supermarket, one prominent QAnon influencer told his 84,000 followers on Telegram that the incident was a false flag operation. Following the shooting last week at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in which 21 people including 19 children died, the same influencer reiterated his claims that the killing was a false flag. Another prolific, anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracist claimed that "false flag shootings abound" on the day of the Uvalde killings.

These baseless conspiracy theories circulated so widely in some online circles that fact-checkers needed to debunk the blatantly false claims.

Rest at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/false-flag-conspiracies-about-the-uvalde-and-buffalo-mass-shootings-are-already-big-on-the-far-right/ar-AAY0HW4?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=f0b824cba7cb49a6bcd14ab8bf476efa

That didn't take long.

[KPN]

1. So let's just upset their cart and give them a

fucking true flag by taking their fucking military type weapons away soon. That’ll put these ridiculous “false-flag” illusions or dimentia away for good.

Geezuz!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. +100

[NQAS]

3. The second this hits Alex Jones level dissemination...

Lawsuits should filed. Endless lawsuits. For hundreds of millions of dollars. Each. These vile non-humans must pay a price.

[Novara]

4. If Uvalde was a false flag, ...

... damn we're good. We also made the police force totally inept and useless as well. And made parents get tackled by the police. Wow, we're good.



How in fuck do you stage something like these mass murders? Parents being tackled to the ground while their children are dying, a race war in Buffalo?

Lately people throw out the dumbest conspiracy theories without even trying to make them seem the least bit plausible. If you're gonna make something up, make it pass the smell test at least. Sheesh.