Posted on 02/21/2018 6:41:25 PM PST by Beave Meister
After appearing as the No. 1 trending video for hours, YouTube finally removed a video that suggested one of the high school students who survived the Parkland, Fl. shooting last week was an actor.
In a statement to Fox News, a YouTube spokesperson said: "This video should never have appeared in Trending. Because the video contained footage from an authoritative news source, our system misclassified it. As soon as we became aware of the video, we removed it from Trending and from YouTube for violating our policies. We are working to improve our systems moving forward.
The title of the now-deleted video was "DAVID HOGG THE ACTOR..." The clip appears to show footage where Hogg was interviewed about a video he recorded in Redondo Beach, Calif.
In actuality, the video resurfaces content from summer 2017 when Hogg was interviewed about how a friend of his got into an argument with a lifeguard.
The video was uploaded by a user named Mike M. and was viewed more than 216,000 times prior to its removal.
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Yes, he grew up in California and his family moved to Florida a couple of years ago. They go to California for vacation.
They call our independent journalists "Fake" to fool us, but we know censorship when we see it. We know that independent free-thinking humans can be wily little rascals to those who can't stand to see competing views out in the open.
History is replete with famous censors...Castro, Franco, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Hitler, Stalin and Mao. It starts with censorship and gun confiscation, but it ends in a river of blood and trenches full of lime-caked corpses.
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