‘Staged’: Conspiracy theories surge after shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

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Source: France 24

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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