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The tweets in the image are manipulated versions of a May 24 tweet Cruz shared in response to the Uvalde shooting. Our rating: Alteredīased on our research, we rate ALTERED a photo that purports to show Cruz using a Twitter template for mass shootings. 27, 2018, Cruz said in a tweet that he and his wife were "praying for the victims and their families, the entire Jewish community in Pittsburg, and our brave members of law enforcement."Ĭruz has not tweeted from his personal or official account responding to mass shootings in Indianapolis, Rochester, Virginia Beach and Parkland, according to the Associated Press. USA TODAY and other independent fact-checking organizations also found no evidence Cruz has used identical wording from his May 24 tweet in past responses to any mass shootings.įor example, in response to the deadly supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York that left 10 dead, Cruz wrote in a May 16 tweet that the killer "must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law" and that he is "thankful there are heroes like security guard Aaron Salter, Jr., retired police officer, who fought back, and lost his life defending those around him."įact check: Comparison of school shootings in the US, other countries uses old dataĪnd after a shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. The tweets shown in the social media posts do not exist on Cruz's personal or official accounts, in any archives or on a ProPublica database that tracks his deleted tweets. The tweets in the social media posts are digitally altered versions of a tweet Cruz shared on May 24 in response to the Uvalde shooting. The location of the shooting in the tweet and the date and time were changed on the others to make it appear as though Cruz has a programmed response to mass shootings.
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