News outlets rushed to claim that Israel massacred civilians waiting for food aid in Gaza on Feb 29, 2024. The truth? A crowd surge around the aid convoy caused a deadly crush. Most of the deaths came from trampling and being run over, not bullets. So how did the lie spread? @APNews’s early framing got syndicated everywhere. When the story jumped to social media, it solidified. The later corrections explaining the crowd surge? Almost no one saw them.