YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced Tuesday that the Google - owned video website will link information from Wikipedia to content in hopes that it will combat the flood of videos promoting false conspiracy theories that have plagued its service. (businessinsider.com)
Far - right media outfits, like Alex Jones» InfoWars, used the platform to promote the blatantly false conspiracy theory that David Hogg, one of the student survivors of the shooting who has emerged as a vocal advocate for enacting stricter gun laws, was a «crisis actor» working to sensationalize the news in an effort to strip away gun rights. (slate.com)
He has become the subject of smear campaigns and demonstrably false conspiracy theories that say either he has been «coached» by his father, a former FBI agent; or he is a «pawn» for anti-gun campaigners; or he is not a victim but a «crisis actor,» paid to travel to disaster sites to argue against stricter gun laws. (local10.com)