crisis actors

  • YouTube Promoted A Conspiracy Theory Following A Mass Shooting, Again

    YouTube Promoted A Conspiracy Theory Following A Mass Shooting, Again

    Earlier today, a video appearing in YouTube’s trending videos feed, meant to surface the most popular content to the platform’s estimated one billion users, featured content suggesting a survivor of the Parkland shooting was a “crisis actor”. The term is used in conspiracy circles to describe someone paid to pretend they’d been involved in a…