Hillary Clinton slammed Facebook for refusing to remove doctored videos of Nancy Pelosi
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday slammed Facebook for refusing to remove doctored videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, admonishing the social network for its controversial decision to keep up what Clinton called “sexist trash.”
The videos of Pelosi, which began disseminating online last week, are digitally manipulated to slow the speaker’s speech in a manner that suggests she was drunk or otherwise physically impaired. one such clip on Twitter and the president telling reporters at an official White House event that the speaker is “a mess” who has “lost it.”the videos as “sexist trash“ during a speech in Houston to the Harris County Democratic Party on Friday, saying that they were “a sign that Trump is running scared.“ In her remarks to the graduates on Wednesday, however, she directed her ire squarely at Facebook.
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