Factcheckers monitoring content on Facebook have put a “partly false” label on the latest video that it said was manipulated to make it appear as if the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was drunk or drugged, but by Monday the social media giant had refused to remove the video from its platform. The video had been circulating on Facebook since Thursday and by Sunday night had been viewed more than 2m times, CNN reported. Another false video of the leading Democratic politician in Washington went viral on Facebook in May 2019. Pelosi at the time vociferously criticized Facebook for not taking the content down, instead simply adding a factchecking label to it. And instead of removing the new video, Facebook has given it a warning label and it will get less promotion by its algorithm, but that still allows people to view it on the platform. Facebook has said it will also send an alert to those who have already shared the video, flagging the warning label on its accuracy. The new video was shared on Facebook on Saturday, accompanied by a caption reading: “This is unbelievable, she is blowed out of her mind, I bet this gets took down!”The 55-second clip has been taken from a press conference in May when Pelosi responded to press questions about comments Donald Trump made about the MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, with whom he has had a long-running spat.

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Article Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/03/facebook-fake-nancy-pelosi-video-false-label


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