Nearly four years after Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters, Shanann Watts’s parents tell CBS4 they continue to be relentlessly targeted by conspiracy theorists.
brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters, Shanann Watts’s parents tell CBS4 they continue to be relentlessly targeted by conspiracy theorists on popular websites like YouTube. Frank and Sandy Rzucek, and their son Franky, tell CBS4 they have been physically, emotionally and financially exhausted by unfounded claims by conspiracy theorists who believe they played roles in their family’s murders in Colorado.
The Rzuceks say they, and other victims associated with the crimes of 2018 have been slandered and defamed by conspiracy theorists.Some YouTube users, and their subscribers, have even suggested that the Rzucek family ordered the murders of their loved ones in hope of collecting insurance money. Others suggested the family helped Watts in his actions in hope of gaining either fame or fortune.
“ reporting these things and telling them that this is going to take someone to go and commit suicide for this to stop,” Rzucek said. Wolfgang, an expert in Communications Law for CSU’s Department of Journalism and Technical Communication, said websites like YouTube are largely protected by Section 230, a federal law created in the 1990s to protect online companies.
Like many other websites and social media companies, YouTube has been accused of creating and implementing algorithms that not only draw in users to false information, but also one that draws users closer into the communities that develop the content. Frank’s son, Franky, has started the process of taking legal action against one user in the United Kingdom. He has put in thousands of dollars of his own money to try and stop the false information from being spread on the internet. He has also started a fundraiser to try and cover the costly price of taking legal action in another country.
Some have warned against taking significant action to alter Section 230. Wolfgang pointed out that the law, for most Americans, has worked perfectly fine. However, as he further noted, some are tragically exposed to the faults of the law. The home, now empty of any furniture or belongings, has not been sold. Aside from the dead grass and signs requesting that people stay off property, the house appears to be a typical and beautiful home in a quiet neighborhood.
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