Some are so quick to confirm or deny an official story based on a reflex reaction of what suits their politics or perception of reality. Few stop to wonder if a major story can be both real and fake, i.e., it occurred and people died, but the details have been altered to manufacture a false narrative or to create a martyr. Take the cases of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd. In both instances, photographic and video evidence was edited, withheld, or selectively released with no context. Then both of the victims were turned into saints and worshipped as martyrs by a socio-religious cult. The recent killing of an activist in Atlanta is another example. Tortuguita is the persona of a nonbinary queer person - they/it pronouns - who was such an environmental activist that they chose to violently resist the building of a police training center in Atlanta because of trees. Their identity and interests checked the right socio-political boxes and their violent action of shooting a state trooper, though this was largely withheld from the public, approved their transformation into yet another social-justice martyr Also, ‘it’s’ fellow protesters/terrorist-friends who were arrested for planning violence were non-native to Georgia. So who paid for and organized the protests and subsequent riots? In a separate story during the previous weekend protests in Atlanta, a shooting happened in the Chinese-America city of Monterey Park, California, during the Lunar New Year celebration. The shooter was immediately labeled and his motivation was assigned until it was revealed that he was also asian. Furthermore, we also recently learned that multiple ‘doctors’ on social media pushing for certain medical or social practices were not who they claimed; in fact, they didn’t even exist. Despite the assurance that their loved ones had died from a wicked disease these doctors seemed strangely preoccupied with rainbow flags and Ukraine too. In all of these cases what we find is a deliberate attempt to alter the factual basis of reality by taking the real and using it as inspiration to create a totally fictitious story that can be used as leverage for politically motivated agendas.