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On 5 November 2017, a gunman clad in black opened fire on parishioners at a Sunday service at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing at least 26 people. Within hours of that massacre, fake news sites were shamelessly exploiting the tragedy for personal gain by disseminating fabricated information about the shooter. One common theme to such fake news stories was that the shooter was connected to the Antifa movement: As of this writing little is known about Devin Kelley or his motivation for attacking a church, but neither police nor any reputable news organization has offered a desire to start a civil war by targeting white conservative churches as a motive for the shooting, nor reported that Kelley carried an Antifa flag and told churchgoers that he was participating in a communist revolution: Preliminary news reports suggested instead that law enforcement had few clues to explain why Kelley went on a shooting rampage or targeted the church in Sutherland Springs: Antifa United declared that the purported image of Devin Kelley's Facebook page, which includes an Antifa flag, was likewise a fabrication:
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