“The Atlanta shooting suspect wrote an anti-China post on Facebook prior to the shootings.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 17 Mar 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The post isn’t legitimate and didn’t come from an authentic Facebook account. It was made using an online generator that creates fake Facebook status updates.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 17 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 March 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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