« We terminated the channel in question for violating our policies covering impersonation, » a YouTube spokesperson told Gizmodo.
Have you seen a mysterious video featuring a countdown clock that purports to be from Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old “person of interest” in last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York? The video went viral Monday on YouTube, getting attention on sites like Hacker News. But it’s completely fake.
Mangione reportedly had a “manifesto” as well as a ghost gun and was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday. He was charged with five crimes, including carrying a gun without a license, forgery, falsely identifying himself to authorities, and possessing instruments of crime, according to a criminal complaint posted online. But Mangione wasn’t charged with the murder of Thompson and hasn’t been named as a suspect, despite the fact that the internet is treating him as one.
