White House appears to share Jim Acosta mic-grab video doctored by far-right Infowars
Sinéad Baker 3h
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is accused of sharing a misleading video of CNN's Jim Acosta from the conspiracy-theory website Infowars.
The White House is accused of using a video of CNN's Jim Acosta doctored by the conspiracy-theory outlet Infowars as justification for suspending the journalist's press pass on Wednesday.
Acosta, the chief White House correspondent for CNN, was engaged in a tense exchange with President Donald Trump during a press conference at the White House when a White House intern walked up and tried to take the microphone away from him. Acosta held on to the microphone and kept trying to question Trump.
A video shared on Twitter by the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, makes Acosta's movement appear more violent.
What appears to be the same video was shared two hours earlier by Paul Joseph Watson, the editor-at-large of Infowars.com, a far-right conspiracy outlet whose content has been barred from almost every major tech content distributor, including Apple, Facebook, Spotify, and YouTube, generally for violating their policies on hate speech.
The CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter asked Sanders for the source of the video. "Surely you don't trust InfoWars...?" he said on Twitter.
Other Twitter users showed Sanders' video side-by-side with the original broadcast to argue the one she posted had been doctored.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-acosta-video-white-house-appears-from-infowars-2018-11
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