Gov. Greg Abbott’s team slapped down a viral Twitter claim that his staff approached a Uvalde massacre victim’s family with a threatening offer of payola for propping up a pro-gun message.
victim’s family with a threatening offer of payola for propping up a pro-gun message.
As of Thursday evening, more than 32,000 users had retweeted the account @MyCancerJourne3’s description of a supposed encounter with a representative from Abbott’s office just after viewing their nephew’s body. As several Twitter users have noted, the account had previously described falling victim to an array of personal tragedies, and the post about the purported nephew contained some apparent contradictions. It reported that they had gone to see their “living nephew’s body” but also said the nephew was dead.
The account has also tweeted the CashApp handle of a man residing in Washington State, whose Facebook page reflected the same sports team allegiances as @MyCancerJourne3, and shows the same given name the account has used to refer to itself. The Facebook page was deleted after The Daily Beast reached out to the man, and he called shortly after publication to claim an unknown interloper had hijacked his social media, and that he had contacted Twitter to have the page disabled.
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