Reporting shows prominent business and government figures amplified rumors and unverified information following the recent shooting on Brown University’s campus, renewing questions about accountability in public discourse. The spread of false claims complicated campus communications, strained trust in official updates, and intensified student and faculty concerns about safety and misinformation. University communications teams and campus safety offices face heightened demands to combat viral falsehoods and to coordinate rapid, authoritative messaging. Legal and ethics scholars note that high-profile amplification of unverified material can saddle institutions with reputational and operational fallout, and may spur boards and presidents to tighten crisis-response protocols.