‘Staged’: Conspiracy theories surge after shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Social media was flooded with conspiracy theories after a gunman's thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, with both left-wing and right-wing accounts claiming - without evidence - that the attack was "staged." By midday Sunday, the term "staged" appeared in over 300,000 posts on X, according to social media analytics firm TweetBinder.
Social media was flooded with conspiracy theories after a gunman's thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, with both left-wing and right-wing accounts claiming - without evidence - that the attack was "staged." By midday Sunday, the term "staged" appeared in over 300,000 posts on X, according to social media analytics firm TweetBinder.
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