Ever since Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, South Korea has fixated on what drove the president to send troops to the National Assembly to eliminate a vaguely defined North Korean threat, in the process throwing the country into political chaos and precipitating his impeachment just 11 days later.

As it turns out, YouTube may be partly to blame.

In one video on the social media platform, a middle-aged host sat in front of U.S. and South Korean flags and alleged that an opposition lawmaker’s aide is a North Korean spy. Another channel broadcasting to nearly 2 million subscribers announced “urgent”