Who is behind the current spate of false school shooter reports across the US?

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An american right-wing group.

An american left-wing group.

1.6%

An Ethiopian group

15%

A Russian-back group

A Chinese-backed group

Unaffiliated troublemakers

37%

an American individual with ambiguous politics and no clear group membership

There have been over a hundred apparently related false reports of active shooters in American schools over the past 4 weeks. They are masked by a VPN, but they appeared to be coming from Internet-based phone numbers, and the caller has an accent. Who's doing this?

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/07/1127242702/false-calls-about-active-shooters-at-schools-are-up-why

Oct 8, 11:12am: If multiple options are true, I will select multiple. I may disqualify responses that are too close to a previous response.