It’s a hump day #TheDailyThree! Welcome back to a daily roundup of three top stories in digital + a few thoughts. Today’s stories are a bit drenched in politics, including an overnight Twitter purge, outcry over a trending video on YouTube + Snapchat responds to THAT petition.
1. Twitter caused a meltdown by deleting thousands of Russian bot accounts overnight, seemingly equating to a mass of followers being depleted from conservative power users’ accounts. Unsurprisingly, this resulted in a lot of censorship conspiracy theories.
2. YouTube apologized profusely for allowing a video to massively trend alleging that one of the child survivors of the Parkland Shooting was a paid “crisis actor.” It is abhorrent that such grotesque propaganda can be given such attention, let alone hosting.
3. Snapchat responded to the Change.org petition signed by 1.2M users to reverse the redesign that has irked a large portion of their user base. They defended the reasoning behind the redesign + promised to address SOME issues w/ updates in the coming weeks.
