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HAYES: "The most recent victim is the Boston children’s hospital. Yes, the children’s hospital. An operator pediatric hospital in the country. The kind of place that treats kids with rare diseases, compost conditions. More than any other facility in the nation. Parents and families travel from all over the world to receive care at Boston children ’s. And you can imagine, if you are taking your little tiny child to a sick, what a profoundly important place that is to you and the doctors are. And one of the many services they provide at Boston children’s hospital is gender affirming care for transgender youth. And that has recently made Boston children’s a place that cares for sick kids, a target of malicious misinformation spread online. Some of the far-right accused the hospital of performing hysterectomies on minors, which of course is not true. But that didn’t matter. No. The lies spread like wildfire as right-wing figures on Fox News and infowars, social media, and the whole MAGA crew worked up a frenzy claiming the hospital, which cares for sick children, was performing, quote, child mutilation. . And as surely as day follows night, Boston children’s began receiving violent threats. This evening, Boston children’s hospital under attack. Doctors and staff facing threats of violence. After the hospital says it was the focus of a social media campaign, of its treatment of transgender youth. Boston children says the post aren’t accurate, even, the the hospital has said the fallout is extensive. From threatening emails and phone calls to threats of violence. Then, the same people who helped whip up the frenzy that led to these threats, including a bomb threat, the same people started claiming it was all a hoax this at the threats were not real. That they were a false flag. There was even one concerted activists me — alleging no one called the police for a bomb threat. But it wasn’t a hoax. It was exactly what it looked like. Yesterday, the FBI announced that they have arrested and charged Massachusetts woman, a die hard Trump supporter, who donated more than $6,000 to his fundraising committees, for making a bomb threat against Boston children’s last month. One of many in recent weeks. The hospital has received dozens of hoax threats, including harassing phone calls and emails, individual death threats, and threats of mass casualty attacks."