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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFacebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked - but declines to delete it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/24/facebook-acknowledges-pelosi-video-is-faked-declines-delete-it/When an edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) began spreading across the Web this week, researchers quickly identified it as a distortion, with sound and playback speed that had been manipulated to make her speech appear stilted and slurred.
But in the hours after the social-media giants were alerted, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube offered widely conflicting responses that potentially allowed the viral misinformation to continue its spread.
YouTube offered a definitive response Thursday afternoon, saying the company had removed the videos because they violated clear policies that outline what content is not acceptable to post.
Twitter declined to comment. But sharing the video would likely not conflict with the companys policies, which permit inaccurate statements about an elected official as long as they dont include efforts of election manipulation or voter suppression. Several tweets sharing the video, often alongside insults that Pelosi was drunk as [a] skunk, remained online Friday.
But Facebook, where the video appeared to gain much of its audience, declined Friday to remove the video, even after Facebooks independent fact-checking groups, Lead Stories and PolitiFact, deemed the video false."
We dont have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true, Facebook said in a statement to The Washington Post.
But in the hours after the social-media giants were alerted, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube offered widely conflicting responses that potentially allowed the viral misinformation to continue its spread.
YouTube offered a definitive response Thursday afternoon, saying the company had removed the videos because they violated clear policies that outline what content is not acceptable to post.
Twitter declined to comment. But sharing the video would likely not conflict with the companys policies, which permit inaccurate statements about an elected official as long as they dont include efforts of election manipulation or voter suppression. Several tweets sharing the video, often alongside insults that Pelosi was drunk as [a] skunk, remained online Friday.
But Facebook, where the video appeared to gain much of its audience, declined Friday to remove the video, even after Facebooks independent fact-checking groups, Lead Stories and PolitiFact, deemed the video false."
We dont have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true, Facebook said in a statement to The Washington Post.
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Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked - but declines to delete it (Original Post)
CousinIT
May 2019
OP
Okay, then retaliate by putting up mocked up videos of rump then. Tit for tat...nt
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#8
We don't need to create fake videos of Trump slurring and bumbling like a drug-addled drunk
CousinIT
May 2019
#10
You nailed it! I never heard the likes of someone like this whining so much. NT
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#12
cwydro
(51,308 posts)1. That's sickening.
That is a company (one of many) with no soul, no conscience.
Submariner
(12,485 posts)2. But Facebook had no problem banning Senator Warren's Facebook ads
calling for the breakup of monster outfits like Facebook. Right wing partisan hypocrites.
J_William_Ryan
(1,736 posts)3. Leave
the video up to demonstrate to the Nation of just how dishonest most conservatives are, and of the propensity for lying common to most on the right.
murielm99
(30,656 posts)5. Leave
Facebook.
Response to CousinIT (Original post)
Chin music This message was self-deleted by its author.
klook
(12,134 posts)6. Reason 9,482,436 that Facebook sucks.
My numbers may be a little off, but Facebook definitely sucks.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)9. And the same amount of reasons
to delete Facebook accounts. I did 2 years ago and haven't missed it at all.
dalton99a
(81,068 posts)7. Fuck Zuckerberg
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)8. Okay, then retaliate by putting up mocked up videos of rump then. Tit for tat...nt
CousinIT
(9,151 posts)10. We don't need to create fake videos of Trump slurring and bumbling like a drug-addled drunk
He provides us with REAL ones every day.
IOW, he's projecting again.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)12. You nailed it! I never heard the likes of someone like this whining so much. NT
spanone
(135,635 posts)11. the video is STILL up on trump's twitter feed
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)13. Twitter finally acknolwedged recently what we all knew -
They refuse to do anything about Trump's abuses. They are considering labeling them in some unspecified way, at some unspecified time.
One of the things were working really closely on with our product and engineering folks is, How can we label that? Gadde said. How can we put some context around it so people are aware that that content is actually a violation of our rules and it is serving a particular purpose in remaining on the platform.
http://fortune.com/2019/03/28/twitter-rules-offensive-tweets-labels/