https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/viral-images-shaping-views-l-133509687.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Many accounts, knowingly or unknowingly, shared images that warped the reality of what was happening on the ground. An X account with 388,000 followers called US Homeland Security News, which is not affiliated with DHS but paid for one of X\u2019s \u201cverified\u201d blue check marks, posted a photo of bricks that it said had been ordered to be \u201cused by Democrat militants against ICE agents and staff!! It\u2019s Civil War!!\u201d The photo actually originated on the website of a Malaysian construction-supply company. The post has nevertheless been viewed more than 800,000 times.”<\/p>\n
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“Some online creators treated the L.A. clashes as a prized opportunity for viral content. On Reddit, accounts with names like LiveNews_24H posted \u201ccrazy footage\u201d compilations of the unrest and said it looked like a \u201cwar zone.\u201d On YouTube, Damon Heller, who comments on police helicopter footage and scanner calls under the name Smoke N\u2019 Scan, streamed the clashes on Sunday for nearly 12 hours.”<\/p>\n
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“Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, said videos can play a uniquely forceful role in shaping people\u2019s reactions to current events because they \u201cencapsulate the emotion of the moment.\u201d
\n\u201cThere\u2019s a heavy dose of misinformation,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd, you know, people just end up getting angrier and angrier.\u201d”<\/p>\n
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