Kuala Lampur, Aug. 5 -- In late May 2020, the outrage-soaked social media landscape amplified a chaotic 17-second video.

Shot in darkness from a shaky, first-person perspective, the footage allegedly showed protesters burning down a store in Minneapolis.

It conveyed a sense of raw truth and fuelled national racial tension amidst the George Floyd protests.

However, a subsequent investigation by fact-checker Nur Ibrahim at Snopes revealed that the video was actually from a 2019 music festival.

The uploader had maliciously reframed the content to simulate a live riot.

This incident embodies a dangerous tension of our digital age: citizen journalism - news reported by laypeople - is unparalleled in its transparency, yet it simultaneously...