Episode

Conspiracy theories swirl that White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting was 'staged'

Podcast: Truth or Fake
Published: Apr 27, 2026
Duration seconds: 310
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Summary

Social media has been flooded with conspiracy theories after a gunman's thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, with both left-wing and right-wing accounts claiming – without evidence – that the attack was "staged". By midday on Sunday, the term "staged" appeared in over 300,000 posts on X, according to social media analytics firm TweetBinder.