At least 58 people are dead and hundreds are injured after a gunman opened fire at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 (Elyse Samuels,Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)Geary Danley was not the gunman in Las Vegas who killed at least 50 people late Sunday. But for hours on the far-right Internet, would-be sleuths scoured Danley’s Facebook likes, family photographs and marital history to try to “prove” that he was. Danley, according to an archived version of a Facebook page bearing that name, might have been married to a Marilou Danley. But the fake Danley story presented a complete, desirable package to the elements of the far-right Internet that spread it. There was one exception: a link to Danley’s personal Facebook page.

Source: Washington Post October 02, 2017 14:03 UTC