Facebook Labels New Viral Edited Clip Of ‘Drunk’ Nancy Pelosi As ‘Partly False’
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A startling video showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking in an odd and slurred manner has gone viral on social media.
The video, which was flagged by CNN, originally appeared on TikTok and found its way on Facebook. The clip has been shared over 91,000 times on Facebook, with the caption, “This is unbelievable, she is blowed out of her mind, I bet this gets taken down.”
The clip, which has been manipulated to make Pelosi appear drunk, is of low quality and jerky. It has since been flagged for “Partly False Information” on Facebook.
A quick search shows that the original video was taken from a news conference back in May, visible on C-SPAN. At the 18:08 mark, Pelosi can be seen sipping water before proceeding to speak to her audience. Comparing the doctored clip to the original one, it is clear the edited version has been significantly slowed down.
The edited video is similar to another viral video in May last year that was slowed down to make Pelosi sound inebriated.
“Following an incident over a year ago with a previous video of Speaker Pelosi, we took a number of key steps, making it very clear to people on Facebook when a third-party fact-checker determines content to be false and updating our policy to make explicit the kind of manipulated media we will remove,” a Facebook spokesperson told Daily Dot.
This is unbelievable, she is blowed out of her mind, I bet this gets taken down!
Posted by Will Allen on Thursday, July 30, 2020
[via Daily Dot, opening image via Michael Candelori / Shutterstock.com]
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