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It all started that night when someone posted an Instagram video of a tense encounter between a Native American elder and a group of Kentucky Catholic high school students.
Twenty-four hours later, the video was omnipresent. social networks, splashing on news sites and broadcasting on television.
How did it spread so fast?
After attending the March for Life rally on Capitol Hill, a group of students from Covington Catholic High School in northern Kentucky ended their day in Washington with a sightseeing tour at Lincoln Memorial. At the same time, a small group of Native Americans were organizing a march of Aboriginal people on the steps of the memorial.
Kaya Taitano publishes the original video
Taitano attended the The walk of the indigenous population and video of the meeting show that students, some wearing caps Make America Great Again, making fun of the eldest of the Omaha tribe, Nathan Phillips. She uploaded the video on Instagram Friday at 19:33. She has also released a longer version of her YouTube account.
The Instagram video was viewed over 179,000 times.
A Twitter user expands the meeting by adding a comment
Almost four hours later, at 11:13 pm On Friday, the Twitter account @ 2020fight republished the video of Taitano.
"This MAGA loser cheerfully disturbs a Native American protester during the March of Indigenous Peoples", reads the tweet that accompanies the video.
the video quickly gained traction. Influencers of social media, celebrities and some reporters have retweeted it.
The social media accounts republish it again and again
Like all videos that become viral, the original clip of Taitano was downloaded and republished by other people and stories, again and again – often without her permission or knowledge.
A number of people and organizations, including the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, quickly sentenced the students seen in the video.
News organizations learn that history is more thorough
When legitimate media outlets try to investigate videos of this type, it can be difficult to cover hundreds, even thousands, of news releases to find the original message.
CNN has regained its identity. Taitano, who said the incident had begun when a protest match had erupted between students and four African American men who were preaching on the nearby Bible.
Recently discovered video, revealed after CNN. published his first account of the incident, showed the group of black men, who identify as members of the Hebrew Israelites, shouting insults against Native Americans and Catholic students.
at 7:10 pm On Sunday, CNN got a statement from Nick Sandmann, the student from Covington confronted with Phillips, the American elder. He denied allegations that he was making fun of Phillips and claimed that he was trying to defuse a tense situation.
Twitter account @ 2020fight is suspended
[19659012] The account claimed to belong to a Californian teacher. But CNN Business discovered that his profile picture was not that of a teacher, but that of a Brazilian-based blogger.
Twitter suspended the account @ 2020fight Monday night after CNN disclosed this information to the company.
It's hard to know who managed the @ 2020fight account. Twitter inquiry.
But the tweeter has managed to influence the opinion of many people in one tweet.
This is the latest example of the crying problem of social media: instantaneous judgments, without full context, broadcast by people who might themselves try to deceive or influence opinions.
