YouTube and Facebook promoted a right-wing conspiracy about a Florida shooting survivor (GOOG)
- YouTube promoted a video featuring a conspiracy theory claiming that one of the survivors of the school shooting last week in Parkland, Florida, is a paid actor.
- Facebook also promoted the conspiracy in its trending news section. The company says it will remove hoax content related to the survivors.
- The YouTube video was first in the site's list of trending videos Wednesday morning. It was later removed.
- YouTube and Facebook continue to struggle with people gaming their sites to spread false news.
YouTube on Wednesday promoted a video claiming to show evidence that one of the survivors of last week's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, is a paid actor. The video appeared in the top position in the site's trending section on Wednesday morning before being removed from the section later in the morning after several news stories and tweets about it started to spread.
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The video shows a local news clip featuring David Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has made several news appearances over the past few days calling for gun control. The segment comes from a CBS Los Angeles newscast from last summer that shows Hogg telling a reporter how he got into an argument with a lifeguard. Conspiracy theorists say the clip is proof that Hogg shows up in media appearances as a paid actor.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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