Something I read like a day or two ago: > “The FBI and other 3 letter agencies contact these unhinged mentally ill kids and convince them to do mass shootings,

Something I read like a day or two ago: > “The FBI and other 3 letter agencies contact these unhinged mentally ill kids and convince them to do mass shootings,” Airman Teixeira wrote in an online chat group, sharing a debunked conspiracy theory after a gunman killed three people at a mall in Indiana last summer. The gunman, he claimed, was one of many mass shooters groomed by the government as part of a secret plot “to make people vote for” gun control. Kind of strange to see the NYT prematurely assert something as "debunked" without evidence. And not even in an opinion article, but in a regular article? It seems like when the US govt is involved, any sort of journalistic standard gets thrown out https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/politics/airman-jack-teixeira-classified-secrets.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/politics/airman-jack-t...