YouTube Yanks Video Spreading Conspiracy About Florida Student Survivor After It Hits #1 in Trending

Earlier today, if you looked at the top-trending videos on YouTube, #1 on the list was a video suggesting a conspiracy about Florida shooting student survivor David Hogg.

See, because Hogg was in another local news report a while back, the crazies have gone nuts saying he’s a crisis actor.

And this video went viral as a result:

There was some outcry online over how a video like this was top trending, and now YouTube has pulled it:

YouTube PR says: "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 & from YouTube for violating our policies"

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 21, 2018

When you go to the link now, there’s a message saying, “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on harassment and bullying.”

For the record, as of this posting, a bunch of conspiracy videos pop up when you search Hogg’s name:

UPDATE –– 3:10 pm ET: Some of the conspiracy videos against Hogg no longer show up on the front page.

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