A few days ago , on April 3, there was a mass shooting at YouTube headquarters, that left 4 people dead at the scene. During the shooting, of course there were devastated family members and friends, but there was also a hacker. A hacker that decides to hack a YouTube employee, Vadim Lavrusik, account during the shooting. Vadim posted a tweet on Twitter to keep his followers up-to-date on what was going on at the time, so I’m guessing that the person who hacked his page thought that it would be funny. The hacker posted misinformation, stating that Vadim lost a friend in the building and also immature slurs about Vadim’s name.
On social media, people were also going around saying that Sam Hyde was the YouTube mass shooter, which was incorrect, and considered fake news. They have identified the shooter as a female, Nasim Aghdam, which was an employee, shot herself dead, after injuring 3 innocent victims. According to BBC News, “It is not the first time that social media platforms struggled with misinformation and fake images during breaking news events”.
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