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That may be true but a lot wasn't.
Posted on: January 11, 2023 at 08:31:58 CT
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Following the shooting, misinformation and fake news about the shooter's identity and motive went viral on social media:
A 4chan /pol/ thread, which misidentified the shooter and described him as a registered Democrat, was briefly featured in the "Top Stories" section of a Google search for the shooter's name. This was further circulated by a number of websites, including being shared briefly on The Gateway Pundit.[140][141]
The fake news website Your News Wire spread false information about a second gunman purportedly shooting from the fourth floor of the hotel.[142]
Two of Facebook's top trending pages were items from Sputnik, a Russian government news agency. These included one story that falsely claimed the FBI had linked the shooter to a terrorist group. The stories were later removed from Sputnik with an apology.[143][144]
Stories linking the shooter to the Antifa movement have also been discredited.[145]
The terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed that Paddock was its "soldier" who had answered Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's call to attack coalition countries' citizens.[146] ISIS provided no evidence for this, had previously released multiple false claims of responsibility for other incidents,[147][148] and no such link was discovered by the FBI.[149]
Google and Facebook were criticized for displaying such false news stories in some of their search results.[143][150][151] Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic accused the two technology companies of failing in their responsibility to keep these from reaching the public.[152] Facebook later said its algorithms were designed to detect and remove false stories, but failed to work adequately in this instance.[150]
Survivors of the shooting have been accused of being crisis actors, and some have received death threats on social media.[153] Conspiracy theorists have claimed that there were multiple shooters and that details of the massacre are being covered up for the sake of promoting gun control laws.[154] After some media outlets reported that YouTube search results for information about the shooting returned links to conspiracy videos, YouTube said it had tweaked its search algorithm to promote news sources which it considered more authoritative.[155][156] Some experts have said the removal of this content ironically fuels conspiracy theories by making a cover-up seem evident.[154]
Edited by JayHoaxH8r at 08:32:15 on 01/11/23
A 4chan /pol/ thread, which misidentified the shooter and described him as a registered Democrat, was briefly featured in the "Top Stories" section of a Google search for the shooter's name. This was further circulated by a number of websites, including being shared briefly on The Gateway Pundit.[140][141]
The fake news website Your News Wire spread false information about a second gunman purportedly shooting from the fourth floor of the hotel.[142]
Two of Facebook's top trending pages were items from Sputnik, a Russian government news agency. These included one story that falsely claimed the FBI had linked the shooter to a terrorist group. The stories were later removed from Sputnik with an apology.[143][144]
Stories linking the shooter to the Antifa movement have also been discredited.[145]
The terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed that Paddock was its "soldier" who had answered Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's call to attack coalition countries' citizens.[146] ISIS provided no evidence for this, had previously released multiple false claims of responsibility for other incidents,[147][148] and no such link was discovered by the FBI.[149]
Google and Facebook were criticized for displaying such false news stories in some of their search results.[143][150][151] Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic accused the two technology companies of failing in their responsibility to keep these from reaching the public.[152] Facebook later said its algorithms were designed to detect and remove false stories, but failed to work adequately in this instance.[150]
Survivors of the shooting have been accused of being crisis actors, and some have received death threats on social media.[153] Conspiracy theorists have claimed that there were multiple shooters and that details of the massacre are being covered up for the sake of promoting gun control laws.[154] After some media outlets reported that YouTube search results for information about the shooting returned links to conspiracy videos, YouTube said it had tweaked its search algorithm to promote news sources which it considered more authoritative.[155][156] Some experts have said the removal of this content ironically fuels conspiracy theories by making a cover-up seem evident.[154]
Edited by JayHoaxH8r at 08:32:15 on 01/11/23
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