YouTube and Facebook increased a right-wing conspiracy about a Florida shooting survivor

as informed in YouTube increased a vidimus featuring a conspiracy theory claiming which 1 of the survivors of the school shooting final 7 days in Parkland, Florida, is a paid actor. The YouTube vidimus was premier in the site's list of trending videos Wednesday morning. Searching for Hogg's name on YouTube too brought up a big number of conspiracy videos as the highest results. Facebook encountered similar crises with conspiracy videos Wednesday. The trending YouTube vidimus had further than 200,000 views Wednesday morning before it was removed.

Florida shooting conspiracy theories trend on YouTube, Facebook

The trending vidimus on YouTube about Hogg had been viewed further than 200,000 times since it was uploaded 22 hours earlier. Screenshot with Alfred Ng/CNETOn Instagram, there are thousands of posts with conspiracy theories and photoshopped memes of Hogg under the hashtag "#crisisactor." Facebook, Google and Twitter have been struggling to squash disinformation and conspiracy theories which spread across their platforms. Twitter had to bargain with Russian bots trolling the social network nearly immediately after the Florida shooting, and this time these conspiracy theories are echoing throughout YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, condemned the conspiracy theories on Tuesday, calling them "the work of a disgusting group of idiots."

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