YouTube shooting: Twitter and Facebook explodes with hoaxes misinformation and hoaxes

The YouTube shooting which left at least three injured and saw hundreds evacuate the California headquarters has sparked a slew of erroneous conspiracy theories, hoaxes and false stories on social media. Police were called after a shooter opened fire and then fatally shot herself on the video sharing platform’s Silicon Valley campus on Tuesday. The woman suspected of carrying out the shooting in the heart of America’s leading tech hub has now been named by local police as 39-year-old San Diego resident Nasim Aghdam.

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