"See this guy died twice, once in Afghanistan in 2021 and then again yesterday at the fake elementary school shooting,,,, please wake up before we lose our freedom," says a Facebook post shared May 25, 2022.
The post includes a photo showing two images of the same man. The first image is accompanied by text that says: "Elementary school teacher Bernie Gores died sheltering his students from gunfire at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas."
The second image in the post purports to show a CNN tweet about a journalist -- also named Bernie Gores -- who died during the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.
"Another false flag. Wake up sheeple," says text above the two images.
Similar posts have been shared thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool. The claim has also circulated online in French and Spanish.
But the man pictured in the posts was not killed during the May 24, 2022 attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, where a gunman murdered 19 children and teachers Eva Mireles and Irma Linda Garcia in the second-deadliest school shooting in US history. No one named "Bernie Gores" is listed...
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