Since the Breonna Taylor case has became popular topic since March of 2020, there’s have been numerus main stream media platforms subjected to the spreading false facts and hiding the actual facts. Following the protest and the riots from the public killing of George Floyd, the Breonna Taylor story became very sensitive to the public causing celebrities, public figures, media platforms to make it their duty to raise awareness and fight for social change. Most would blame the social media platforms like, Facebook or Instagram, for being the main culprit of spreading the false rumors, when the creditable news sources should take all the blame.
When following this Breonna Taylor case over the passed few months, I’ve found numerous creditable news sources that headlines included that, Breonna Taylor was killed in her bed sleep.
According to sources, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker; who was in the bed with her that night, emphasized on the fact that Breonna Taylor was not sleep in her bed during the police raid and they both were watching television falling asleep during his interrogation days after the shooting occurred. According to Kenneth Walker and the officers involved, Taylor was killed in her hallway after her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired at the police.
- Was “Click-Baiting” the main tactic in getting people to invested into this story to cause more outrage or awareness?
Even though the truth has been out, the media has yet to still correct it’s audience blatantly causing a major social separation amongst the people.