Man Falsely Blamed for Mass Shooting in Kansas City Sues Congressman Over Tweet

A man from suburban Kansas City was falsely accused in social media posts of being a mass shooter at the Super Bowl parade for the Kansas City Chiefs last month. And now that man has filed a defamation lawsuit against Tim Burchett, a Republican congressman from Tennessee, who helped spread the inaccurate claim, according to KCTV. Rep.

Burchett blamed “news reports,” but there wasn’t a single reputable news outlet that claimed the man in that photo was an illegal alien nor someone who’d been arrested for perpetrating the shooting. It was all bullshit being peddled by far-right X accounts like End Wokeness, an anonymous account popular with X’s owner Elon Musk. Rep. Burchett appears to have gotten his “news” from X accounts that have no problem with spreading false information that fits with their narrative.

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