Jacko’s Backo?
Posted: September 2nd, 2009 | Author: Chris Jirau | Filed under: Entertainment | Tags: Cologne, coroner, Heike Schultz, King of Pop, Michael Jackson, RTL, YouTube | No Comments »
In an experiment to show how quickly misinformation and conspiracy theories can spread across the Internet, German broadcaster RTL posted on YouTube last week a video that appears to be Michael Jackson emerging from a coroners van.
“We wanted to show how easily users can be manipulated on the Internet with hoax videos,” spokeswoman Heike Schultz of Cologne-based RTL told The Associated Press. “Therefore, we created this video of Michael Jackson being alive, even though everybody knows by now that he is dead — and the response was breathtaking.”
Jackson died in Los Angeles June 25.
The poorly lit video shows what appears to be the King of Pop emerging from a coroners van inside of a gated parking garage with another person.
Although the video was only posted for one day, it received 880,000 hits.
