Deep-Fake Video Shows Hillary Clinton Torturing Young Girl. Here's The Truth
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These conspiratorial videos promote extreme views have appeared on YouTube too.
A bizarre deep-fake video featuring former US First Lady Hillary Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin made news a few years ago when it appeared on dark web, the part of the internet that isn't indexed by search engines. The "snuff video" shockingly claimed to show Ms Clinton and Ms Abedin torturing a young girl. Some of these clips, part of a conspiracy theory called "Frazzledrip" on the dark web, keep appearing over the years without offering any explanation about their origin. It is again gaining traction with some handled posting content around it.
These conspiratorial videos that promote extreme views have appeared on YouTube too, due to which Sundar Pichai, the CEO of its parent company Google, had to testify before the House Committee on Judiciary of the US House of Representatives in 2018.
According to a Washington Post report, users of some of the sites popular among hate groups, link to YouTube more than any other platform.
The outlet quoted the work of Data and Society and the Network Contagion Research Institute, which track the spread of hate speech, to say that these users serve several problematic videos and conspiracy theories claiming that large numbers of leading politicians and celebrities molested children.
