Thread by @conspirator0

In the aftermath of the Nashville bombing, a wide variety of rumors and conspiracy theories about motives/affiliation of the bomber(s) began circulating on Twitter. Trump supporters, antifa, and Dominion voting machines were some of the most common themes.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

The themes of the rumors varied somewhat over time. Antifa was a common topic shortly after the bombing, tweets about Dominion spiked twice after popular tweets, and Trump supporters were a common theme throughout, increasing slightly after CBS named a person of interest.

Here are some examples of tweets containing terms from each group. Some of the tweets fit into multiple groups - for example, some of the tweets about Dominion voting systems also reference the AT&T building.

Similarly, the tweets speculating that the bomber was a Trump supporter overlap with the tweets theorizing that he/she was a white supremacist.

More examples: although the early tweets blaming "antifa" comprise the most common narrative suggesting a left-wing perpetrator, tweets claiming BLM, socialists/communists/Marxists, or leftists/libtards also turn up.

Rounding out the conspiracy theories, we have tweets declaring the "deep state" was responsible, tweets calling the bombing a #FalseFlag, tweets claiming the explosion was the result of "directed energy weapons" rather than a bomb, and weird tweets about vaccines.

We updated our observations with an additional 24 hours' worth of Nashville/#Nashville/#NashvilleBombing tweets, and added categories for "missile" and "5G". Overall, the Dominion and Trump supporter categories are the largest.

Here's what it looks like with just today's traffic (December 27th, 2020). The Trump supporter, 5G, Dominion, and missile categories are the largest. As of yet, nothing about the suspect's motives has been confirmed by law enforcement (the FBI has only released his identity).