A CNN broadcast with a chyron about a mass shooter in Colorado in 2021 was digitally altered and miscaptioned online as showing a headline about the suspect in the October mass shooting in Maine.
Police have identified U.S. army reservist Robert R. Card as the suspect who killed 18 people in a mass shooting at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine on Oct. 25.
Posts on social media on Oct. 26 said: “The Maine shooter was an Arabic Obama supporter.
However, the chyron at that timestamp reads: “COLORADO SHOOTING SUSPECT BOOKED INTO JAIL TODAY,” which does not match the inauthentic headline circulating online.
The CNN chyron was digitally altered and stems from coverage of the 2021 mass shooting in Colorado, not the Maine mass shooting in October 2023.
Persons:
Robert R, Obama, Brooke Baldwin, Lucy Kafanov, CNN chyron, Read
Organizations:
CNN, Reuters, Police, YouTube, Thomson
Locations:
Colorado, Maine, Boulder , Colorado, Lewiston , Maine, Boulder, COLORADO