Scrolling through YouTube, one might assume the Las Vegas shooting was carried out by a member of "antifa," or perhaps government agents.
That's because dozens of conspiracy theory videos—including one from Alex Jones, viewed more than 1 million times—are being promoted by YouTube in the wake of the mass shooting.
As the Guardian reports, YouTube searches for "Las Vegas shooting" return clips titled "Proof Las Vegas Shooting Was a FALSE FLAG attack" and "Las Vegas 'Shooting' ... Did It Actually Happen?" According to Fast Company, five of the top 13 results in this search are for conspiracy theory videos. And victims are outraged. "When I see my wife fighting for her life with a gunshot wound to her chest … it's pretty conclusive evidence that it did happen," one man says.
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