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    School Shooting Spawns Conspiracy Theories

    by Saranac Hale Spencer Feb 23, 2018 2 minutes

    The internet has been rife with rumors about the school shooting that left 17 dead in Florida on Feb. 14. We’ve debunked several of them.

    Initially, the rumors focused on the alleged shooter himself, . But, as students who survived the shooting started advocating stricter gun controls, new rumors focused on the most of trending videos on YouTube.

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