YouTube has taken down videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) doctored to make her seem drunk from its platform, saying that the posts “violated our policies.”
“YouTube has clear policies that outline what content is not acceptable to post and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged to us. These videos violated our policies and have been removed. They also did not surface prominently. In fact, search results and watch next panels about Nancy Pelosi include videos from authoritative sources, usually at the top,” a spokesperson told TPM.
Facebook and Twitter, on the other hand, are letting the videos live on their sites.
“We remove things from Facebook that violate our Community Standards, and we don’t have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true,” a company spokesperson said in a statement obtained by Politico.
The tech giant will reportedly deflate the distribution on people’s NewsFeeds and add fact-checking context.
A Twitter spokeswoman declined to comment. Versions of the video are still up on that platform.
The original video came from a speech Pelosi made this week, but the audio was slowed to make her seem to be drunkenly slurring her words. The video began circulating at the same time Trump & co. began their full-court press to depict Pelosi as aging and senile.
Time to flood the intertubes with doctored video making it look like Trump is dropping n-bombs and other racial and bigoted slurs.
Facebook: Killing Truth, Democracy, and Everything Decent Since 2003!™
(One food picture, one angry uncle, and one GRU account at a time.)
I would much rather say this at this time:
This is what Trump does. There is more to come. If Trump has not been made to face what he has done, like any ordinary citizen, by this time next year. it would mean that our System of Justice–which is supposed to safeguard the rights of the innoncent–has been perverted to allow this man not only to escape punishment but to actually alter the political structure of this country in his favor, the result of which will certainly in turn result in the most corrupt election process in American history (assuming he allows us to have an election).
I am not a lawyer. I am a social scientist (historian) and I would ask those who take Trump lightly to ask themselves about their perception of the terms (a) Congressional Oversight (b) Career Professional Federal Law Enforcement
THEN: Early March 2019
NOW May 24, 2019
Most of us are now far more convinced that Trump is guilty, yet far more doubtful that incriminating items dealing with him will ever be seen.
I am parroting Laurence Tribe here: Trump must be Impeached as soon as possible.
There’s actually plenty of Trump video like that – and none of it requires ANY doctoring…
FB is full of crap. Somebody post doctored up viral videos of Mark Zuckerberg to make him look foolish… and let’s see how long they stay up.