A Twitter joke about MSNBC and World War Z turned into a misinformation nightmare

Bad Scooter / Twitter An apparent Twitter joke got out of control this weekend, falsely convincing some users -- and possibly even the leader of the QAnon conspiracy theory -- that MSNBC ran a broadcast with World War Z shots instead of real protest footage. Over the past day, an image and video clip have spread around Twitter comparing a news broadcast with a scene from the Brad Pitt film World War Z. The clip seems to show MSNBC reporting on the weekend's nationwide protests, narrating over an...