Prominent Leaders Amplify Disinformation About Brown University Shooting NYT: Technology By:Steven Lee Myers 25 December 2025 at 12:05 Prominent business and government figures spread rumors about the attack on Brown Universityβs campus this month, reigniting questions about accountability in online discourse. Β© Christopher Capozziello for The New York TimesA memorial outside the Van Wickle Gates on the Brown University campus, where a mass shooting killed two people.