Journalist goes viral for grinning, winking on camera during Lindsay Clancy courtroom proceedings

Brittany Romano's grin and wink at the courtroom livestream camera during the Lindsay Clancy trial sparked viral backlash across social media.

A journalist, identified as Brittany Romano, has been slammed online after a video showed her ‘smiling and winking' during the Lindsay Clancy trial.

Algorithms are responsible for fever pitch content surrounding trial, including misinformation, experts say As the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children, starts to wind down, a now international discussion on social media about the case has hit a fever pitch as viewers

Mistrust about the case stems from understandable anger and sorrow at the ways women in extremis aren’t believed.