evidence: Within minutes of the news breaking about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, that word was trending on X in the United States. [...] Like football commentator Marco Violi, who posted on Instagram in the middle of the night from Italy to say he’d seen the totally false claims he was a member of Antifa - a loose affiliation of mostly far-left activists - and behind the attack. Those untrue allegations had millions of views on X by the time he attempted to set the record straight on Instagram.