Several far-right influencers, including Tim Pool and Steven Crowder, mistakenly shared images of an innocent man while attempting to disprove claims that the shooter was a white supremacist. Fox News, Newsmax, Univision, and other far-right media outlets and individuals are being sued for falsely linking the man to a shooting incident.
A number of far-right influencers, including Tim Pool and Steven Crowder , posted images of the wrong man while trying to refute claims the shooter was a white supremacist.Fox News , News max, and Univision, along with a host of far-right podcasters and social-media influencers, were sued last month for wrongly identifying a man aslast May after a man with the same name went on a shooting spree in an Allen outlet mall.
“In their haste to cash in on the eagerness of viewers and readers to learn the identity of the May 6, 2023 mass shooter at the outlet mall in Allen, Texas, several media organizations recklessly disregarded basic journalistic safeguards and published the photo of an innocent man, branding him as a neo-Nazi murderer to his local community and the nation at large,” the lawsuit alleges.two Sandy Hook parents in their successful defamation case against Infowars conspiracist Alex Jones.
At the same time, images of the plaintiff that had been sourced to a mugshot site were shared on social media, seemingly in an effort bywho hosts the Timcast podcast, repeatedly shared a photo of the plaintiff during his daily show and asserted that claims the gunman was a white supremacist was a government-run misinformation campaign. “You see, here’s where we get into the psyop.
On his Louder with Crowder podcast, Crowder aired an image of the plaintiff as the gunman. In an article on his site, the author claimed that he was going against his general standard of showing images of mass murderers because “the media refuses to” show the shooter’s photo, sarcastically calling the plaintiff the “new face of white supremacy.
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