Misinformation and disturbing content spreading like wildfire on social media

Unsuspecting users who watched the video of a man committing suicide, especially kids, were traumatised, according to news reports. — Dreamstime/TNS

Social media platforms are in the spotlight again, as they struggle to contain the spread of disturbing content on their network.

On Aug 31, Ronnie McNutt committed suicide in a livestreamed video on Facebook but the social network took nearly three hours to take down the video, according to a report by TechCrunch.