The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has triggered violent rhetoric and misinformation on some online platforms as RNC delegates gather in Milwaukee.
The scene inside Fiserv Forum on Sunday, ahead of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Donald Trump arrived in Milwaukee on Sunday, a day after a shooting at his campaign rally, which authorities are investigating as an assassination attempt. In the chaotic hours after former president Donald Trump was spirited offstage Saturday by Secret Service agents, his face streaked with blood, a doctored photo of the scene began bouncing around on X, falsely showing Trump with a wide smile.
The flurry of false information threatened to muddle the public understanding of what happened ahead of the GOP convention, where Trump arrived Sunday. The presumptive Republican nominee is scheduled to address delegates Thursday, after a parade of GOP heavyweights, celebrities and Trump family members who are expected to demonstrate a party in lockstep behind Trump, especially in the wake of his close call in Pennsylvania.
In the comments on one of Trump’s posts on his social network Truth Social, his followers championed his bravery after the shooting and accused his political opponents of being behind the attack. One— which showed an illustration of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and was captioned “When Democrats don’t get their way, they get dangerous” — was liked more than 3,000 times.
Meanwhile, Republicans used their control of the House to investigate what they saw as systematic censorship of their views online, conducting a probe that eventually eroded some of the key academic programs and government initiatives to stem conspiracy theories and other falsehoods online.Mainstream social media companies — including X, Meta and YouTube — have weakened or eliminated policy and programs meant to fight political misinformation.
Musk has pledged that his platform, renamed X, is better at covering current events than the mainstream media due to its crowdsourced commentary from anonymous users and its speed of information flow. But the platform played host to some of the most viral strands of misinformation since the shooting, including the troll who purported to be the shooter in a video and received millions of views.
“I didn't have the slightest idea of what had happened,” he wrote in Italian. The claims, he said, are “totally baseless and organized by a group of haters who have been ruining my life since 2018.”
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