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Facebook says it will continue to host a video of Nancy Pelosi that has been edited to give the impression that the Democratic House speaker is drunk or unwell, in the latest incident highlighting its struggle to deal with disinformation.
What struggle? Saying “no” isn’t a struggle. Saying “no” is dead easy.
The viral clip shows Pelosi – who has publicly angered Donald Trump in recent days – speaking at an event, but it has been slowed down to give the impression she is slurring her words. Several versions of the clip appeared to be circulating.
The president’s personal lawyer, the former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, was among the Trump supporters who promoted the story. He tweeted – then deleted – a link to a copy of the video on Facebook with the caption: “What is wrong with Nancy Pelosi? Her speech pattern is bizarre.”
Despite the apparently malicious intent of the video’s creator, Facebook has said it will only downgrade its visibility in users’ newsfeeds and attach a link to a third-party factchecking site pointing out that the clip is misleading. As a result, although it is less likely to be seen by accident, the doctored video will continue to rack up views. Facebook only took the action following inquiries from the Washington Post, which first reported the story.
Giuliani tweeted.
https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1131911083801960448
That’s a fairly halting tweet, but whatever.
In case he deletes it, I’ll quote it.
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The viral success of the crudely produced video highlights the challenges in fighting online disinformation when individuals are willing to share material that backs their own political views, even when it is accompanied by warnings.
The administrator of the Politics WatchDog page polled readers on whether to remove the video, with most voting for it stay online. They defended the decision to keep the video live, insisting “it’s a free country”.
Blah blah blah; fake videos aren’t a matter of “freedom.” It’s a free country, but we don’t get to strangle each other.
A Facebook spokesperson said: “There’s a tension here: we work hard to find the right balance between encouraging free expression and promoting a safe and authentic community, and we believe that reducing the distribution of inauthentic content strikes that balance. But just because something is allowed to be on Facebook doesn’t mean it should get distribution. In other words, we allow people to post it as a form of expression, but we’re not going to show it at the top of News Feed.”
What pathetic mealy-mouthed horseshit.
What does “Pelosi publicly angered [DJT],” even mean? AFAICT, DJT acted angrily in public because he didn’t like something Pelosi said or did. He had a public tantrum and blamed it on her.
Trump’s at a disadvantage – Pelosi’s video has to be doctored to make her look like an idiot – Trump’s videos simply have to be viewed to achieve the same. His entire business plan is ‘be an asshole.” No policy, no debate, no insight – just be an asshole. Which obviously works with his base of assholes since they can’t discuss rational policy, debate facts, or gain any insights as that would require genuine effort. They’re idea of civic duty seems to involve throwing their beer at the TV when Trump bellows some of his bullshit and yell, “fuck yeah!”.
It’s how Trump responds to any challenge – real or imagined. Look at his comments about Rex Tillerson: Now that he’s out Trump calls him dumber than a box of rocks. Now I’m no fan of having Tillerson as Sec of State nor of EXXON but it’s interesting that a dumbass who inherited wealth should name call a guy who started out as an engineer and rose in the ranks at EXXON to become CEO for at least a decade. I sincerely doubt that the EXXON board would have put him there if the ‘box of rocks’ theory were true. Trump’s success only required the meeting of an egg and one mediocre sperm from a rich guy.
Not that I’m bitter…
I am. When I think of all the wetlands I could have saved with the money he lost bankrupting casinos…Hell, yes, I’m bitter.
Someone needs to upload an edited video of Zuckerberg, see how long it takes Facebook to take that down.
Does this mean that speeding-up video of Trump makes him look normal? Or just stupidity on amphetamine?