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It is not unusual to encounter hoaxes in the wake of tragedies, and in this era of America — in which tragedies like natural disasters and public acts of violence occur with enough regularity to overtake one another in the news cycle — they seem to appear at every turn, no matter how horrific the event or how heinous the rhetoric may look in hindsight. Just this past week, U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, promulgated the baseless claim that the floods that took more than 100 lives, including children at summer camp, in the Texas Hill…