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Advocacy groups push for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation over report that she spread falsehoods about school shootings

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This article was published more than&nbsp;2 years agoCommentGift ShareTwo years before she was elected to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene hopped on Facebook to respond to a comment falsely claiming that the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was staged, according to screenshots posted by , a liberal media watchdog group. Instead of rejecting the false claim surrounding the mass shooting that killed 17 people, Greene enthusiastically agreed with the conspiracy theory.“Exactly!” she wrote in response.Those comments, along unearthed this week of Greene casting doubt on school shootings, sparked among survivors and family members of those killed in two of the country’s deadliest mass shootings. By Thursday, several advocacy groups, including , , and, called for Greene (R-Ga.) Advertisement“She should resign,” Cameron Kasky, who co-founded the student-led group Never Again MSD after surviving Parkland, told The Washington Post. “She can apologize. I don’t think anybody will accept it.”Greene’s office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment as of early Friday. Facebook removed Greene’s comments for violating its policies following the watchdog group’s report, a Facebook spokesperson told The Post. Greene, has also continued to repeat former president Donald Trump’s baseless claims of mass election fraud. Earlier this week, after she posted a clip with false claims about the election.The Facebook conversations highlighted by Media Matters for America this week came nearly three years after 14 students and three staff members were killed in February 2018 when a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School AdvertisementThree months later, Greene — who was then a right-wing media commentator — posted a news article about the Broward County sheriff’s deputy who failed to confront the shooter, In the comments section, someone wrote: “It’s called a pay off to keep his mouth shut since it was a false flag planned shooting.” Greene replied: “Exactly!”A month later, the watchdog reported, Greene had a similar interaction with another Facebook user after she posted a link to a piece published by the conspiracy theory-spreading site Gateway Pundit about former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.One commenter called the Parkland shooting “fake,” adding that “none of the School shootings were real or done by the ones who were supposedly arrested for them.” The user spread other conspiracy theories and called the Sandy Hook massacre — in which 20 children and six staff members at an elementary school were fatally shot in 2012 — a “STAGGED [sic] SHOOTING.”AdvertisementGreene liked the post and replied, “That’s all true.”In December 2018, Media Matters for America reported, Greene claimed without evidence in a Facebook post that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) viewed school shootings as a convenient means of pushing for stricter gun laws.“I am told that Nancy Pelosi tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that ‘we need another school shooting’ in order to persuade the public to want strict gun control,” Greene wrote.The screenshots posted by the watchdog group led to harsh backlash this week.Fred Guttenberg, the father of 14-year-old Jaime, who was killed in the Parkland shooting, took to to denounce Greene’s baseless claims.“Your feelings on gun laws are irrelevant to your claim that Parkland never happened,” Guttenberg “You are a fraud who must resign. Be prepared to meet me directly in person to explain your conspiracy theory, and soon.”AdvertisementThe Parkland chapter of March for Our Lives called Greene a “coward.”“The shooting at our school was real. Real kids died and our community is still grieving today. You should be ashamed of yourself and resign from congress,” the organization “Conspiracy theorists don’t deserve a seat in the people’s house.”David Hogg, the activist and co-founder of March for Our Lives, to organize against Greene if she did not apologize for the comments.“I have one message for @RepMTG,” tweeted Hogg, a Parkland survivor. “Apologize Now or continue to spread the conspiracies and we will be sure to make the next two years of your life not only your last in Congress but a living hell as well.” CommentsGift ArticleTOP STORIESGood VibesIf you’re looking for levity, look no further. Stories that brim with optimism.Try a different topic or to save your preferences

This article was published more than&nbsp;2 years agoCommentGift ShareTwo years before she was elected to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene hopped on Facebook to respond to a comment falsely claiming that the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was staged, according to screenshots posted by , a liberal media watchdog group. Instead of rejecting the false claim surrounding the mass shooting that killed 17 people, Greene enthusiastically agreed with the conspiracy theory.“Exactly!” she wrote in response.Those comments, along unearthed this week of Greene casting doubt on school shootings, sparked...

Advocacy groups push for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation over report that she spread falsehoods about school shootings

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