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High-profile American conservative commentator Ben Shapiro is firing back at critics who accuse him of inciting Quebec mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette.

Shapiro, a columnist, podcaster and editor in chief of The Daily Wire website, was at the top of a list of Twitter feeds Bissonnette was visiting in the month before he attacked a Quebec City mosque, killing six Muslim men and injuring another five.

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An RCMP document presented at Bissonnette’s sentencing hearing last month showed the killer checked Shapiro’s Twitter feed 93 times. The list included many right-wing American commentators, as well as conspiracy theorists, and alt-right and white supremacist/neo-Nazi leaders.

A tweet by a Montreal Gazette reporter featuring a screengrab of the RCMP list has been retweeted more than 5,700 times and has sparked more than 500 comments, with some commenters suggesting those on the list played a role in Bissonnette’s rampage.