How YouTube broadcasts became a platform for RBG death hoaxes
February 8, 2019
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If you watched the State of the Union on social media, you may have seen a never-ending thread of comments popping up alongside the speech. The impact on livestream viewers can be overwhelming, a digital mob effect that can be especially pronounced when it’s not clear how much active moderation is taking place.
We tracked livestreams of Tuesday’s SoTU, tallying comments that slipped into the extreme and pushed disinformation. Watch in real time as users peddled death conspiracies linked to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s absence from the address. #rbg #trump #hoax #sotu
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