Former Allies Blame YouTube for Conspiracy Mindset That Led South Korea President to Declare Martial Law
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With the latest news, now both YouTube and Facebook have been blamed (likely correctly) for driving countries into significant governmental instability. Things are going great over in Silicon Valley.
PPP leader Han Dong-hoon, a former confidant of Yoon who went on to advocate for the president's impeachment, announced his resignation on Monday and blamed South Korea's right-wing media for creating divisions among conservatives.
"If we sympathise with extremists like the conspiracy theorists and extreme YouTubers, or if we are consumed by their commercially produced fears, there is no future for conservatism," said Han, who was a common target of Ko's criticism.
A columnist for the conservative-leaning JoongAng Ilbo newspaper on Friday said Yoon's "YouTube addiction" had ruined his regime.
"If you are addicted to YouTube, you fall into a world of delusion dominated by conspiracy theories... President Yoon watched too much YouTube," the column said.
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— Via Ju-min Park and Tom Bateman, Inside South Korea's right-wing YouTube world openly embraced by Yoon