An article called "Fake news stories circulate after Las Vegas mass shooting" by Melissa Etehad. The deadly mass shooting has counted of 58 lives dead. Since then so many false news stories were flowing through Twitter that had hundreds of retweets. The false story on Twitter was that multiple gunmen were shooting at the concert which is not correct. A picture that was flowing around on Twitter of the wrong attacker was retweeted by hundreds of people too. The officials identified the real shooter was alone and named Stephen Paddock who was 64 years old. Another false story that was floating around Twitter was the shooter is Sam Hyde. When the shootings were head more stories were circulating that other Las Vegas hotels had shooters which is clearly false when it was one massive shooting.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-las-vegas-shooting-live-updates-fake-news-stories-circulate-after-1506961659-htmlstory.html
It was and is absolutely horrific to see the fake news flying around social media sites about the tragedy. It really bothers me that people are more interested in getting a like, retweet, follow or whatever else that they would share such fake news. I understand that tragedy usually makes this worse because many individuals are only trying to help spread information but it is important to take the time to research the information before sharing
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