Fake news about Keanu Reeves and ‘blood of babies’ tops YouTube search

Fake news is like a horrible weed: just when you think you’ve eradicated it, another pops up somewhere else.

The website YourNewsWire published a totally made-up story about actor Keanu Reeves, who allegedly said in Milan that Hollywood elites use “the blood of babies to get high”.

The story went viral on Facebook with 26,000+ engagements. It was posted on the verified Your News Wire and related The People’s Voice pages, as noticed by Media Matters researcher Alex Kaplan:

YourNewsWire (YNW), which published the fake viral Texas shooter antifa story, makes up blatantly fake story about Keanu Reeves that already has 12,500+ Facebook engagements and is being promoted on a verified Facebook page run by the same people as YNWpic.twitter.com/H2pHIh26q3

— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) November 20, 2017 Read more…

More about Google, Youtube, Conspiracy Theory, Hollywood, and Keanu Reeves

Post Views: 340