How can a YouTube news channel claim Iran fired a nuclear bomb?

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I searched so-called legitimate news channels and found nothing about a nuke. If true it would be all over the news.

indissoluble · Answer

Every time there is a large explosion of any sort people start claiming nukes were used. In reality people have no comprehension of the scale of nuclear weapons. They will be on a road 2-3 miles away from an explosion recording an explosion on their iPhone and be like WTF OMG we were nuked... Meanwhile you don't see the horizon on fire from a ground burst fireball, there is no pressure wave in the video even though they are generally at a distance that would see moderate to severe damage to buildings. Car and building windows will shatter 9-10 miles away. EMP can impact electronics hundreds of miles away, but sure their iPhones are all recording fine, all the lights in their cities are all functioning, cars are all driving down the street about their business, no radioactive fallout occurs where they are standing in the videos even though it can stretch out hundreds of miles down wind. They go back home upload their video over the internet which apparently hasn't been knocked up by the EMP and they post their video and make wild claims and respond to comments for weeks on youtube or facebook and claim it's a government cover up all the while living a normal healthy life. It shows how stupid people are. If a city gets nuked, everything goes black. Nobody is able to communicate. People are dying in mass and are violently sick in the affected area. They aren't chilling chatting on the internet posting videos about something that happened in their city. People a hundred or two hundred miles away might post that something crazy is happening, but not people that saw the explosion up close.

purplepoppy · Answer

Because there's nothing holding them accountable. Real news chanels are covered by organisations such as the independent press standards organisation and codes of practice laid down by the likes of the national union of journalists.

But there's nothing stopping these youtube channels spouting bullshit.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

It can because if that news channel is solely operating from YouTube then it doesn't have any moral or professional obligation. Their duty is more about defining an audience and please it, accordingly to their audience's worldviews.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

It’s called clickbait, specifically targeting people of below-average intelligence. And it obviously worked.

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

Weird, it seems that the same people who are responsible for the white house web site are responsible of youtube, next thing we will see on youtube news that the aliens are hovering in their flying saucers above our heads 😂😂

genericname85 · Answer

Anyone can claim whatever they want online. It's free speech. Free speech isn't obliged t be the truth. Especially news channels often imply lies in their click bait headlines.

Anonymous · Answer

Because people like Sage fall for it all the time

Iron_Man · Answer

Yeah that’s fake news. It would be all over the place

strateguy632 · Answer

they want likes!

How can a YouTube news channel claim Iran fired a nuclear bomb?

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