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A crisis actor (aka actor-patient or actor victim) is a trained actor, role player, volunteer, or other person engaged to portray a disaster victim during emergency drills to train first responders such as police, firefighters or EMS personnel. Crisis actors are used to create high-fidelity simulations of disasters in order to allow first ...
Oct 10, 2023 · The "crisis actor" claim spread following attacks launched on Israel by Hamas in October 2023, which elicited reprisal attacks on Palestine by Israel. At the time of this writing, CNN reported...
- A History of The Crisis Actor Conspiracy Theory
- How The Crisis Actor Theory Is Weaponized by The Far-Right
- What Is Big Tech Doing About It?
The crisis actor conspiracy theory is rooted in the claim that mass shooting victims are actually paid actors, brought in by liberal Deep State backers like George Soros, to make mass shootings appear worse than they actually are — or, in the case of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, completely fabricated. These actors are trained on pro-g...
From afar, these repeated cries of “crisis actor” might seem like an absurd fringe conspiracy, but they actually serve a wider purpose in enabling the far-right to sow disinformation and plant seeds of doubt that are later picked up by more mainstream right-wing news outlets. What’s especially worrying is that it’s proven to be an incredibly effect...
When contacted by ThinkProgress, both Facebook and YouTube said Wednesday that they had taken steps to remove the crisis actor content from their platforms. “Hoax images that attack the victims of last week’s tragedy in Florida are abhorrent,” Mary deBree, Facebook’s head of content policy, said in a statement. “We are removing this content from Fa...
Feb 5, 2024 · MediaWise teen fact-checker Isaac Harte debunks a crisis-actor claim and explains how and where the these types of narratives began. By: Isaac Harte February 5, 2024
Nov 27, 2023 · The conflation of the two individuals is a prime example of a "crisis actor" trope: the false claim that, for propaganda purposes, people are pretending to be victims of tragedies — in this case...
4 days ago · 11:53 AM 05/21/2024 Joseph Casieri | Fact Check Reporter. A post shared on social media purportedly shows a recent video of Palestinian crisis actors staging a violent incident in Gaza. Verdict: False. The video is from a behind-the-scenes production of a short film in 2022. Fact Check:
