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Odette Yousef

The Uvalde shooting conspiracies show how far-right misinformation is evolving

Police walk near Robb Elementary School following the shooting on Tuesday. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)

Even before details were known about the shooter who killed 19 children and two school faculty at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, fringe media were awash in rumors, conspiracy theories and misinformation.

Some posts incorrectly identified the shooter, while others posited without evidence that the massacre was a government-orchestrated "false flag" operation.

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