YouTube promoted a video that falsely attacked a Parkland student. How did this happen? - News Summed Up

YouTube promoted a video that falsely attacked a Parkland student. How did this happen?


The video was simply a news report from the summer before the massacre, in which David Hogg happened to appear. Screenshot / YouTube search results for “David Hogg”It’s evidence of nothing more than Hogg’s location this summer, and that he sometimes carries around a device with a camera on it. Although YouTube has made changes to emphasize more mainstream news outlets in search results recently, that tweak appears to have a limited effect. On Wednesday, even after YouTube had removed the trending conspiracy video, some of the top search results for “David Hogg” on YouTube included multiple videos targeting the student, including “Who is David Hogg? / NSA Has Proof,” and “After Blaming Trump, School Shooting Survivor David Hogg’s Dirty Secret Was Just Exposed.”


Source: Washington Post February 21, 2018 20:09 UTC



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