Republicans are flooding the internet with deceptive videos and Big Tech isn't keeping up

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/tech/trump-facebook-twitter-fact-check/index.html

By Donie O'Sullivan and Daniel Dale, CNN Business

Updated 11:54 AM ET, Tue September 1, 2020

(CNN Business)A series of deceptively edited and misleading videos shared by prominent Republicans have run up millions of views across Facebook and Twitter in just the past few days. And while both companies have pledged to combat misinformation, their responses to these videos followed a familiar pattern: often they act too late, do too little, or don't anything at all.

Between Sunday and Monday, high-profile Republicans, including President Donald Trump, shared at least four misleading videos online.

One that circulated widely was a false video about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden posted to the Twitter account of House Minority Whip Steve Scalise. After an outcry, including from a person in the video who had words put in his mouth in order to distort what Biden was saying, Twitter took the action it takes in such instances, labeling the video as "manipulated media."

The manipulated media label is just that, however -- a label appearing below the video when people look at the specific tweet to which it has been applied. It's small and potentially missed by users, and though it may potentially make some users pause before sharing a given video, it does not actually stop them if they decide to go ahead anyway.

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[Nevilledog]

1. They aren't held accountable and they know it.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Exactly.

Big Social needs to permanently ban people who cheat and break the rules - no matter how it impacts their precious ad revenue. Hell, they aren't even verifying that people are who they say they are (a simple fix if there ever was one). Advertisers are paying for these bogus 'users' and they should be demanding better or take their ad dollars elsewhere. Y'all need to have some courage and integrity.

[lagomorph777]

4. Twit and Falsebook need to be unplugged and put into receivership.

[bluestarone]

3. ALL rethuglicon videos need to be BLOCKED until

Reviewed! BLOCKED until reviewed!