“Norm Macdonald tweeted in 2016: "What terrifies me is if a tranny were to shoot up a school full of children and kill a bunch of innocent kids.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 29 Mar 2023.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
A 2016 tweet from the late comedian Norm Macdonald has been altered to falsely claim that he’d commented on the possibility of a transgender school shooter. A search of Macdonald’s account shows he didn't write that.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 29 March 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 March 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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