Facebook defends decision to leave up fake Pelosi video: Users should make up their own minds, company says
By Alex Horton Alex Horton General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow May 25 at 12:28 PM There is no dispute that the Facebook video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi viewed by millions is a fake, deliberately altered to make her appear drunk. YouTube acted fast and removed duplicates. Other social media outlets have not made the same call.Amid fierce calls across the public and government for Facebook to remove the video — which has been viewed 2.
A question has vexed lawmakers and Silicon Valley for years, particularly after massive disinformation campaigns were harnessed in the 2016 election: Should we consider platforms like Facebook “news publishers,” and should they handle information like one? Bickert rejected the premise in a tense back and forth. “We aren’t in the news business. We’re in the social media business,” she said, adding the company removes content deemed a threat to public safety, or from fake accounts.
Bickert said earlier in the segment that the original video is now tagged with fact-checker icons underneath the post. The video was shared nearly 47,000 times from the original source, a conservative page called Politics WatchDog. As The Post’s Drew Harwell reported, analyses of the distorted video by Washington Post journalists and outside researchers indicate that the video has been slowed to about 75 percent of its original speed.
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