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The bodies of the victims hadn’t gone cold, the families had barely begun grieving, when the familiar cottage industry of activists and journalists jumped in to speculate and spread misinformation on social media. What drove someone to slaughter eight people in three Asian massage parlors in Atlanta on Tuesday?

A clear storyline took hold: this was white supremacy at work. A young, white man murdered six Asian women and two ‘others’ made the framing a foregone conclusion. Not even new information from the investigators could slow down the risk to judgment.

Atlanta police chief Rodney Bryant said that it was too early to classify the shooting as a hate crime and FBI director Christopher Wray affirmed that it “does not appear to be racially motivated.” None of that stopped CNN declaring that “white supremacy and hate are haunting Asian Americans.” The suspect had told the police that the attack was not racially motivated; that he struggled with ‘sexual addiction’; that he was a frequent massage-parlor customer and carried out the crime to eliminate the sources of temptation. He was stopped by the police on his way to Florida, where he allegedly planned on continuing his rampage by targeting the porn industry.

The only piece of evidence so far that potentially supports the racial animus theory is a report in a South Korean newspaper that the shooter had yelled out ‘I want to kill all Asians’. But let’s be real. If the claim had even one iota of credibility, it would already have been reported all over a desperate media in search of a smoking racist gun. Nevertheless, the rumor did the rounds on social media and reporters parroted it unquestioningly.

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