Fox News, Newsmax sued for falsely linking man to neo-nazi killer [View all]
Justin Baragona
Published Apr. 12, 2024 2:42PM EDT
... Fox News, Newsmax, and Univision, along with a host of far-right podcasters and social-media influencers, were sued last month for wrongly identifying a man as the neo-Nazi shooter who killed eight people last year in Texas.
Mauricio Garcia, a 36-year-old man from Texas, suddenly saw a picture of him plastered online and during news broadcasts last May after a man with the same name went on a shooting spree in an Allen outlet mall. Garcia is now suing the outlets and individuals who shared his photo and falsely linked him to the deadly shooting ...
On May 6, 2023, Mauricio Martinez Garcia, 33, opened fire at the Allen Premium Outlet mall, killing five adults and three children while injuring seven others. The shooter wore a tactical vest with a “Right Wing Death Squad” patch and had swastika and Nazi SS tattoos. By the following day, it was revealed that he had extensively shared white supremacist beliefs online, and his name and date of birth were shared by law enforcement.
At the same time, images of the plaintiff that had been sourced to a mugshot site were shared on social media, seemingly in an effort by right-wing trolls to push back on the narrative that the shooter was a far-right extremist and neo-Nazi ...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-newsmax-sued-for-falsely-linking-man-to-neo-nazi-killer