The 2020 election is set to face some very 2016 challenges when it comes to the spread of misinformation.
The emergence of distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, edited to make her appear to have trouble speaking, has provided a stark reminder that technology often remains an enemy of truth in politics, just as it was four years ago. The core issues of social media virality, confirmation bias andhave endured from 2016 and do not even need particularly sophisticated techniques to do real mischief.
The videos also offer a warning that concerns about election interference from foreign countries should not overshadow the ability of domestic actors to influence what people see, hear and think.
“A video that is slightly deceptively edited can be the source of very divisive and possibly false narratives,” said Stamos, who is an NBC News contributor and adjunct professor at Stanford University. “With all of our focus on the Russians, we’ve forgotten that domestic actors are the most likely to have insight into the kinds of narratives that will become viral and will have a big impact on people’s beliefs in American institutions and individuals.
The fact that it's being talked about so much, as an act of manipulation, is a possible silver lining.
I think the media sped up the video to make her sound sane. She was either drunk or mentally unstable.
nbc and other outlets selectively report and ignore events based on their fundamental liberal beliefs. You should be careful about pointing fingers at tech.
This has been the standard in your so called journalism for decades. If your techniques of duplicitous distortion are used in a way you don't like, it's unfair? Try turning away from your partisan firehose of BS and half-truths yourselves. Stop pushing The Agenda of The Left.
Yeah, it was not a faked video, but hey, you’ve been doing it to Trump for almost 3 years and never even mention it. Fake news.
Enemy of the truth, sounds quite trump like
If its doctored where is the original undoctored video ?
realDonaldTrump is so scared of SpeakerPelosi he has 2 commission a distorted video of Nancy Pelosi. He's so scared of her he goes through a TrumpTower load of diapers a second RocksRSmarterThanDonaldTrump HorsesRSmarterThanDonaldTrump
FakeNews aka Propaganda by media abuses technology.
Enemy of your truth...
No news will ever give us the truth about her.
This isn’t the first time that Nancy has had issues with loss of communication and stuttering. NBC when are you going to start doing unbiased journalism
As if you didn’t already know that.
She's distorted not the video
She was able to say they believe the president is involved in a coverup just fine and well enough to get under realDonaldTrump skin...
NBC is an enemy of the truth.
The children in the WH, just can't handle her. So they create children's games.
Oh my. What a joke. Excuses have no uses. Who is in their right mind, you or she? You people always make excuses. Trump 2020.
This message has been brought to you by the radical left who will lie and deny until the cows come home.
No! That works of the devil that how much they love a devil man like Trump he ain't no good to nobody and no good for his self he ten to draw demon to him so be careful Satan peoples is on the loose and they will do anything to hurt good peoples to make the devil look good
Nancy’s inability to speak coherently isn’t exactly something new.
I don’t see any difference, I see that your video looks doctor because it’s in black-and-white, you never shoot in black-and-white. The other video was in color, and you didn’t even play the video, you just gave us another fake news headline!
Nadler passing out, Pelosi basically incoherent. Dems have a strong starting 5 there. Good lawd.
Um, she DOES have trouble speaking, and forgets her line of thought. Often.
Watching her live on CNN didn’t help her cause not putting a simple sentence together! Has anyone seen her tax returns?
Which one? They’re numerous
Do distorted videos include taking snippets like Charlottesville?
I saw the live broadcast. It was not much different. Get real.
Indeed technology is a tool for lying in politics. But politicians & their paid minions &!advisors that do this are the liars. Media needs to call it for what it is. Show the altered versions first, then the actual, &!emphasize the differences.Then tell who the liars are.
Trumps remains any enemy of truth in politics.
She is s fool
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Exactly, kinda like the way Nick Sandman was taken out of context. How are his lawsuits coming along? You should report some real news instead of trouncing on the First Amendment.
That's not technology ass-wipes, she's losing her mind and she's weakening like that's what Democrats do, ass-hole
It should also stand as a reminder of how foul politics remains.
Slowed down or not the hag can’t put a sentence together. Perfect example of why we need TERM LIMITS!
Doctored videos aside, she often sounds either tipsy or drugged up. She is sluring her speech quite often.
I could bet that the videos originated in the White House and were disseminated with President's Trump blessing . It is like the Russia spies and Donald Trump's meeting the President knew about it but he says he had nothing to do with it.
I don’t need an edited video to know Pelosi is impaired. Stop insulting us! Her actions as Speaker of the House & her non action as an elected official is enough evidence that she’s either bribed to hurt Americans or has abandoned the American People. Her conscience is impaired.
'compiles in rapid succession relatively small verbal stumbles in an attempt to portray Speaker Pelosi as stumbling through her press conference,”~Hany Farid,comp-sci prof & digital-forensics expert at UofCA Berkeley. IOW video shows Pelosi as a SMALL UNDISTORTED VERBAL STUMBLER
Are we still pretending she doesn’t struggle to form a coherent sentence? I normally watch live footage online, how is live footage getting doctored?
No sympathy Pelosi caused this with her evil actions and comments but Fake News networks are trying to twist the story to make it look like it's President Trump's fault !!!
Technology also remains an enemy of truth in journalism NBC. Get over it and don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Lol...no need to watch videos of her, just watch her live. There’s no changes her!
Her drunken stupor is what causes the appearance of intoxication
1) Politician does something embarrassing. 2) People make edits to make it funnier. 3) Journos say it's only embarrassing because of the edits. 4) People who share the vids are docked Social Credit Score. 5) Mentioning the original gaffe is now disallowed. Every time.
Trump is a disgusting misogynist
She has for a long time twisting her words and flapping those arms is ridiculous. I still believe she into something
Technology doesn’t make enemies people use technology to do bad things. It’s up to us to be critical thinkers and not let ourselves be ignorant or silent when it happens.
If the MSM would play fair & accurate clips of Pelosi a montage would not be necessary. The fact is you guys keep damaging clips of her out of the news. She clearly has some sort of problem with her speech. It's ridiculous how you cover for her. FakeNews
LMAO!!! Are you jokers for real? The video - doctored or not - was on point. The woman can barely spit out a sentence without slurring something or stammering. Lol! Give us a a damn break will you?
TRUMP and technology often remain an enemy of the truth
I watched her press conference live after the big blow up. It was live. She slurs can't get her words out. Can't name the people standing beside her properly. She does it all the time.
You mean like, technology..that suppresses conservative content, thus stomping on the first amendment? That kind of enemy of truth?
Or just a reminder that republicans remain an enemy to truth.
Please explain unedited videos of SpeakerPelosi speaking incoherently, losing her train of thought, stuttering, spazzing that are easily found via MSM outlets?
And yet Jimmy Kimmel has a regular piece on his show called Drunken Trump where he does the same thing.
Hmmm, as an obvious enemy of truth & foundational member of US' deceitful mainstream media, NBC News knows about what they tweet.
Enough for this lady must go
CrazyNancy
Madam Speaker SpeakerPelosi may stutter a bit, but her overall message is on point. All Trump does is babble, hiss and whine, saying absolutely nothing, while sniffling like a angry boar. He doesn't realize that Madam Speaker SpeakerPelosi is not on the 2020 ballot.
trump and his ilk are an enemy to truth, period.
They should be prosecuted
You, the media, is the Enemy of the people. Plus LawlessDemocrats and RINOs.
IT WAS A MONTAGE FFS.
What about unedited videos of Speaker Pelosi appearing to have trouble speaking?
NBC! Have you ever watched her speak? That's a compilation of her many speeches. But she does stutter a lot! Quit theFakeNews!
Donald Trump is (Peter Pan), reincarnated
Pelosi has done NOTHING to stop the spread of antisemitism and racism by House Dems. She’s a disgrace.
But, this is truth;
You should know NBC Fake News!
Maybe if Americans actually wanted truth this wouldn’t be an issue?
And it shows how Trump and his stooges will stoop to using 'fake' media to smear political adversaries and lie to the public.
So, you’ll stop throwing out stupid tweets now? I’m guessing not.
Hang on Donald, hang on...Help is on its way.
Nancy needs to send a ...Little River Band... video to Donald that she is coming, she is coming with 'Help is on its way.' intervention.
Technology isn’t the “enemy”. Dopes who abuse technology to score political points with their brain-dead base of cultists is.
It’s only gonna get worse as technology gets better. InnoTechToday
Truth will always remain the truth.. read the Mueller report & see what the democrats are doing.. what a pile of 💩💩💩🤮
Are they ALL edited Because she sounds like that all the time! Politics aside, she sounds incoherent and lost.
Is it an edit or do we need to do a stroke protocol
But she often has trouble speaking?
Hahaha liberal tears over a video but a 2 year witch hunt is ok? hypocritemuch?
Shameful! They pulled something similar with Hilary Clinton when she had pneumonia during the campaign. Lies and distortions!🤯😳😐
*president lies to discredit critics* nbc: another reminder that words are the enemy of the truth
Trump tries to make Pelosi seem impaired because she actually scares trump & this is how afraid COWARDS respond when they’re afraid! Trump’s the mentally challenged criminal mob punk who shames our nation & puts our nation’s security at risk daily!
Wording your tweets a little more carefully now?
Alternate headline: NBC explains how Trump and Trump supporters did what NBC does.
This isn’t rocket science folks. It’s called paying attention to sources. Identifying credible sources. Reading more than one one source. The problem is that we live in a microwave society. We want everything RIGHT NOW. Pay attention.
Technology isn't the real 'enemy of truth'. That's the people who use technology to lie and the people who lack either the will or the ability to discern the lies from fact. Technology is showing the Achilles Heel of democracy is an ignorant population invested in ignorance.
When the president of the United States puts out a fake, doctored video of a political enemy, that’s totally unprofessional. They’re so dumb if they really think the people will believe it - it was pretty obvious to me that was cobbled together and made to sound that way
American know the truth.. don't trust politicians.!!!
It doesn't take much editing to make her look like a loony bird. I've seen the original footage and I got news for ya, she still cannot complete a sentence.
2nd time republicans have done this. republicansaretrash
And our 'president' is the leader of the enemy of the truth.
Let me be clear ~ I watched it LIVE on TV as it took place and assure you she was struggling.
Not distorted, just chopped so we don’t hear her lies, fake news covering for the dementia .
MARK MY WORDS: Distorted videogate is a head fake! It’s prepping everyone for being more skeptical! Trump knows there is audio and video that incriminates him! He’s playing this to his advantage! Watch for audio and video to drop soon!
Ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun now is it?
Look they can't handle it when they get a taste of their own medicine!
No. Technology is not the enemy. Those who use it to disparage others are the enemy. The enemy of truth and, in this case, enemy of the people they swore to serve.
But it’s okay for to spread fake news Your true colors are showing.
This is just too much
Truth & politics in the same sentence coming from NBC. Good one.
But turn on late night television and every Trump parody is speaking truth to power, amIright?
NBC trying to protect Democrats
“When it’s used against our side”
Almost as much of an enemy as biased and shoddy reporting.
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