Has YouTube become a breeding ground for sensational content?
YouTube has pulled a conspiracy video which rose to the top of Trending page after it was found to be a conspiracy video involving a survivor of the recent Parkland shooting in the United States. According to a YouTube spokesperson, the video should never have appeared on its Trending page. …
YouTube removes conspiracy video claiming Florida school shooting survivor is an actor
The video, called “DAVID HOGG THE ACTOR,” was removed Wednesday after it became the top trending video on YouTube. It showed a local TV news report of an altercation between a lifeguard and a surfer in Southern California. Hogg, who was a friend of the surfer, spoke in the report …
YouTube’s war on reputable information
Facing pressure from Congress, the normally egalitarian YouTube recently announced it will label content from Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and PBS as government-sponsored content. When a viewer clicks on content from these outlets, they will see those words on the screen. Thus, people … Read More
For A Moment, YouTube’s Top-Trending Video Was Promoting A Florida Shooting Conspiracy Theory
YouTube has since taken down the video. "This video should never have appeared in Trending," a spokesperson said in a written statement to The Washington Post. "Because the video contained footage from an authoritative news source, our system misclassified it. As soon as we became aware of the … Read More
YouTube is still the most lucrative platform for creators — with Etsy and Instagram trailing behind
And while Google's YouTube may be in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, it's still likely to be the very biggest platform for creatives of them all. As this chart from Statista shows, in 2016, YouTube creators earned total revenues equal to those earned by creators on every …
Tech’s biggest companies are spreading conspiracy theories. Again.
On Wednesday, YouTube and Facebook were each forced to issue yet another mea culpa for promoting conspiracy theories about David Hogg, a student who survived the mass shooting at a Florida high school last week. The top trending video on YouTube early Wednesday suggested in all capital … Read More
YouTube Says It Mistakenly Promoted a Conspiratorial Video on Florida Shooting
YouTube on Wednesday said it mistakenly promoted on its site a conspiratorial video accusing a teenage witness of last week's Florida school shooting of being an actor, the latest sign that social media sites are struggling to suppress misleading and false content on their platforms. The world's largest … Read More
YouTube Boosted a Conspiracy Theory Video About a Florida Shooting Survivor Because It …
Conspiracy theories about the teen survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, have begun making the inevitable rounds, and on Wednesday, one of them landed the coveted spot of YouTube's top trending video. The video in question suggested that 17-year-old David Hogg, a student at … Read More
Parkland Conspiracies Overwhelm the Internet’s Broken Trending Tools
For a brief period on Wednesday, YouTube awarded the top spot in its Trending section to a conspiracy video claiming that 17-year-old David Hogg, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that killed 17 students, was in fact an actor. The prime placement of the video, which … …
The Making of a No. 1 YouTube Conspiracy Video After the Parkland Tragedy
YouTube's list of “Trending” videos typically includes funny clips, updates from popular YouTube personalities, movie trailers and viral TV segments. On Wednesday, for a brief time, the No. 1 trending video on YouTube featured David Hogg, a survivor of the massacre last week at Marjory Stoneman … Read More