“God rest her soul,” Ayla tweeted. “Coroner report says she died of a heart attack, she was clearly morbidly obese, the media is spinning this hard.” This cruel lie may have originated on the far-right website Occidental Dissent. Whatever its source, the rumor spiraled across the internet. People joked on social media that Heyer had died of “landwhalitis” and “that voracious appetite.” Never mind that the official cause of her death was blunt force trauma to the torso and that the manner of death was homicide.
