School campuses across the nation, including in Southern California, have seen a spike in hoax, or “swatting” calls to police about bogus shootings this week.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon posted Friday on X that the Trump administration is closely monitoring swatting incidents on campuses across the country.

On Wednesday, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus in Utah and a shooting at a Colorado high school critically wounded two students before the gunman killed himself.

“Amidst the heaviness of the past few days, college campuses across the country have been dealing with a disturbing wave of ‘swatting’ incidents – deliberate, false reports of emergencies intended to spread fear and disrupt campus life,” McMahon wrote Friday.

“These threats are n

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