Family Members Of Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims Sue Social Media Companies For Alleged Role In Radicalizing Racist Gunman

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 18, 2023

Last Wednesday, two days before the anniversary of the fatal Tops grocery store mass shooting in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, NY, lawyers representing the victims’ families announced a landmark, “far-reaching wrongful death lawsuit.”

The lawsuit contends that then 19-year-old shooter Payton Gendron “was not racist until he became addicted to social media apps,” claiming they radicalized Gendron, “which directly lead him

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