They appeared in far-right online forums. Soon after, the conspiracy theories were passed on by prominent conservative voices in the United States.
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Just hours after Tuesday’s school shooting in Texas, rumors spread online that the perpetrator was a transgender person.
Pictures of three innocent transgender people spread like wildfire on various social media. They were to imagine the perpetrator. The problem was: He was dead. These three were alive. According to NBC News, they immediately went out and tried to disprove the rumors. But it was too late.