{"id":105002,"date":"2018-02-27T01:38:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105002"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:38:45","slug":"youtubes-algorithms-are-helping-push-lies-about-the-parkland-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtubes-algorithms-are-helping-push-lies-about-the-parkland-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube\u2019s algorithms are helping push lies about the Parkland school shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source:\u00a0Motherboard<\/a><\/p>\n

After the inhumanity of the Parkland shooting<\/strong>, it seems that lack of human oversight on YouTube<\/strong> is aiding and abetting those who think the whole slaughter<\/a> of the 14 students, two coaches and one teacher\u00a0was a media invention.<\/p>\n

A video<\/a> on the Google-owned platform suggested that shooting survivor<\/strong> and now gun-control advocate David Hogg<\/a> was a so-called crisis actor<\/a> \u2013 bought and paid for to appear in fraudulent footage<\/strong> of an atrocity that \u201cnever happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite (or perhaps because of) the insane insensitivity of the video<\/strong>, it quickly trended<\/strong> before YouTube took it down\u2026 Yet another example of what can happen when algorithms decide what a grieving nation wants to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0Motherboard After the inhumanity of the Parkland shooting, it seems that lack of human oversight on YouTube is aiding and abetting those who think the whole slaughter of the 14 students, two coaches and one teacher\u00a0was a media invention. A video on the Google-owned platform suggested that shooting survivor and now gun-control advocate David Hogg … Continue reading “YouTube\u2019s algorithms are helping push lies about the Parkland school shooting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441,1015],"tags":[1068,1044],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","tag-google","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328246,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105002\/revisions\/328246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105002"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105002"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105002"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}