More on the YouTube trending videos mess The Making of a No. 1 YouTube Conspiracy Video After the Parkland Tragedy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/business/media/youtube-conspiracy-video-parkland.html?partner=rss&emc=rss After the massacre in Las Vegas last October, YouTubers filled a void of information about the killer's motives with dark speculation, crowding the site with videos that were fonts of discredited and unproven information, including claims that the tragedy had been staged. After a mass shooting last November at a church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., those seeking news about the event on YouTube were overwhelmed by videos falsely claiming it had been a "false flag" attack meant to spur gun control measures or a plot carried out by the so-called antifa (short for anti-fascist) movement. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
