Facebook and Twitter have rejected a request by Nancy Pelosi to remove a video posted by Donald Trump that was edited to make it appear as though she ripped a copy of his State of the Union address as he honored a military veteran.
Into that highly politicised environment came the video posted by Mr Trump to his Twitter account Thursday.
The latest fake video of Speaker Pelosi is deliberately designed to mislead and lie to the American people, and every day that these platforms refuse to take it down is another reminder that they care more about their shareholders’ interests than the public’s interests.
A Twitter spokeswoman, Lindsay McCallum, wrote on Saturday that, beginning 5 March, the company would start applying labels that read “manipulated media” on heavily edited videos like Mr Trump’s. “If Nancy Pelosi fears images of her ripping up the speech, perhaps she shouldn’t have ripped up the speech,” Tim Murtaugh, a Trump campaign spokesman, said Saturday.The campaign referred questions about the origin of the video to the White House, which did not respond to a request for comment.
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