Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it

By Drew Harwell Drew Harwell National technology reporter covering artificial intelligence Email Bio Follow May 24 at 4:17 PM When an edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi began spreading across the Web this week, researchers quickly identified it as a distortion, with sound and playback speed that had been manipulated to make her speech appear stilted and slurred.

But Facebook, where the video appeared to gain much of its audience, declined Friday to remove the video, even after Facebook’s independent fact-checking groups, Lead Stories and PolitiFact, deemed the video “false." “Facebook is very responsive to my office when I want to talk about federal legislation and suddenly get marbles in their mouths when we ask them about dealing with a fake video,” U.S. Senator Brian Schatz tweeted. “It’s not that they cannot solve this; it’s that they refuse to do what is necessary.

The site, he said, is reluctant to give too much power to fact-checkers or content moderators, and many pieces of content can often lapse into gray areas, where people’s perceptions of the material depend on their personal politics. President Trump on Thursday night tweeted a separate video taken from the Fox Business Network: a selectively edited 30-second clip focused on her pauses and verbal stumbles from a 20-minute official briefing earlier that day.

jentaub She one ugly old woman steal everything from us

Delete Facebook please!! Smh!!!

Why? Why not delete fake propaganda?

Two ways to apply justice: falsely or truly.

Ah, but there is no violent content in the fake news.

DeleteFacebook

But she looks deranged...

Nice ethics this jerk, not !

TananariveDue Cause let’s all agree and accept that fb is BS

TananariveDue Too late for deletion. It can't be unseen. Ratchet up the counter ops.

This is why I am not on facebook anymore. When Facebook takes this stuff seriously I might go back. For now I'm on Twitter.

anibalacevedo SpeakerPelosi Congress should subpoena Facebook's CEO for lying to Congress, while doing exactly the opposite he promised to do! And now, showing fake videos of people so serious and competent like the Speaker, is definitely against the national security interests of the US!

Time to delete or regulate Facebook.

jentaub facebook fbnewsroom repeat of 2016? Really? Learned nothing?

Best part is this isn't even the video Trump tweeted! Media depends on liberals following like sheep rather than check for themselves. Trump tweeted a montage from Fox business. Predictable how the media treats imbeciles. Check for yourselves then look in the mirror at stupid.

This is wrong. This is why Face Book needs anti-trust action.

President doesn’t care about the Constitution, the Rule of Law, or the basic truth that he obstructed justice. All Trump cares about is himself. That’s why I am begging you to testify.

Then time for all intelligent women to delete Facebook. Lots of other ways to share photos

real_farmacist Part of FB’s promotion of fake news to make more money

No faked, quit lying!

Oh please it’s not fake and you know it. That’s why it’s not been deleted.

Never had a Facebook page, never will. I think technology needs to halt...we dont need to get any more advanced

Seems like libel

Bahahahaha liberals have zero issue with the MILLIONS of fake videos about realDonaldTrump but god forbid one makes it online about SpeakerPelosi ..... 🤣 give me a break snowflakes

If this deleted all edited videos...the media's greatest stories would be tossed with it...

Meanwhile in other news, I was banned from posting on Facebook for 3 days for posting this meme.

Wow. That says why I got off Facebook 2 years ago

Shameful...I expected more from them...

...why should they? They don’t delete all the defamatory posts about the POTUS.

Nothing matters.

..FFS Facebook is actually 'checking validity' of Trump aided fake video. Come on, it's so obviously a Trump payback, only an idiot would believe it.😡

All you people begging for private companies to censor content. You are all pathetic

boohoo heard Nance, Bama & rest stammer many times, MSM edits or doesn't show while always show Trump's errors amplified

Its called satire and we are not North Korea! Get over it....you freaking Marxists!

And this is why we’re in the position we are now! Absolutely ridiculous. I’m done.

Here comes the bulldog Durham... tick-tock.

Facebook has become the trailer park trash of social media. All you find on it anymore are anti vaxxers, religious zealots, and political hysteria and propaganda. Everyone should DeleteFacebook to stay sane. Facebook wants drama? They can keep the drama queens.

Delete it? As in 33000 emails?

Binned fb and never looked back! 👍🏽😁

jentaub No wonder she down on trump look at her and look at our hot First Lady trump now she worth look at Nancy not so much I understand Nancy Being up set she ugly old woman 👵

Facebook sucks.

Facebook is socially dead... creeps, ads, lies, dog videos

Thanks facebook.

Batarhe It isn’t fake.

Opinion: Facebook will not give in to fascist demands.

Even if she were drunk ... she’s still kicking realDonaldTrump ass. Pathetic stable genius can’t even win against a faked drunk video.

Nancy herself is fake ! Any chance of just deleting her

Bout to sign off forever from Facebook. Good riddance.

MarkZuckelberg Hey, Mark! Why do you refuse to remove the fake video and considers that a free speech? I thought you claimed you were cleaning up Facebook by removing fake news.

99.9% of it is her exact words, Democrats just dont want to acknowledge how senile she is 😂

Sad

BrudderClyde OK it’s enough! LAME DUCK Trump tweeted the Doctored Video of SpeakerPelosi and accuses FBI agents of treason. For the sake of US, Impeachment must begin. If he did no wrong until this (and he has), he should be impeached STAT maddow jaketapper billmaher Morning_Joe

This won’t bode well when democrats get to lay down Internet Company oversight

Facebook This makes me want to quit my account. How do they have no scruples.

Facebooks fact checker is Tucker Carlsons Daily Caller and their target audience is pretty much gullible baby boomers now, not 18-45. This is not surprising. Sure-young people still use FB But I think most of the traffic is from older people that just learned smartphones.

To be clear, there is a real video and a fake video. The real one is bad enough, she's losing it.

Facebook is good for one thing, the half nude women on Instagram.

Go back and delete two years of fake news about Trump and then you can talk.

Come on...allot things are not true or correct online. Has anyone heard of don’t believe everything you see? You mean to tell me this would not have come out years, ago? GOP or DEM use your own brains, do your own research. Think for yourselves & connect the dots. Grain of salt.

FYI, edited and faked are NOT the same thing. The leftist media routinely does far worse. Where would your Trump narrative be without deceptively edited video footage?

..why I quit using Facebook years ago. The minute it was shown to be a fake, FB should have shut it down immediately. FB obviously wants the -hits- for added revinue.

Time to deleteFacebook for pushing propaganda for tRump

Jimmy Kimmel has a weekly segment on his show doing basically the same thing. Big deal. Pelosi really does slur her words. It's just more prevalent when slightly slowed down.

Because she held up two fingers

Good for them. Time to stop censoring free speech.

real_farmacist DeleteFacebook

SpeakerPelosi looks and acts like she is a client of VISITING ANGELS!!!!!

Like the Pot calling the Kettle Black?😎

Facebook is trash!

He Won't Grow Up, He Won't Grow Up, He don't Wanna Be A Man, He Don't Wanna Be a Man...sung to the tune and words from the play 'Peter Pan'

Of course

.facebook WTAF ! Continue like you do, and you're the next MySpace.

Facebook needs to be broken up.dropfacebook

Do you know how many Bullshit doctored videos liberals put on twitter and facebook? But you don't care about that. Besides, its not FBs job to fact check a billion people's posts. Get a clue

Time to delete my account. Thought they were going to be more vigilant regarding FAKE NEWS.... 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Hopefully Pelosi starts investigation Zucker and brake his too big to touch co

The liberal MSM tries so hard to try and convince everyone that Nancy isn’t crazy.

She's fake and nuts

But normally it removes the controversial material

Why?

Fake news enjoy it witch

We ask to delete the Washington Post which Facebook agrees is fake news but refuses to delete the site due to clicks

Then Facebook should issue a a clarifying statement prior to each viewing.

Which is why I'm no longer on Facebook. It has become a platform for Russian trolls to infiltrate our electoral process. I encourage everyone to leave Facebook.

Proof that FB is fake news.

Time to DeleteFacebook.

Hey everyone ignore this article by The Washington Post as we all know they spread lies for their political ties with the left. It is correct that one video was manipulated but look at the rest of them and you will see that Pelosi slurs quite often. WashingCON post

Boycott Facebook

facebook will obviously allow faked videos and the continued spread of disinformation on their platform. I wouldn’t say this is a good stance for facebook to take after it allowed Russian bots and conspiracy theorists to take over their platform during the 2016 election.

And the VP of Facebook product policy and counterterrorism Monika bickert can’t answer a single question without being defiant, arrogant, and rude...simple yes or no answer is instead: “LISTEN!” The interview with AC was just going around in circles because she didn’t make sense

Disgusting. Facebook needs regulation.

It’s a meme. Get over it

FB is a double standard, if I would've have posted a fake profile or a fake video, I would be put in FB Jail immediately! I've been in FB Jail a couple of times for posting political comments that were out of their guidelines. What a bunch of bullshit FB is telling today!

really funny we watched it live...

Lots of fake videos exist. Is Facebook supposed to remove every single fake video? How would that even be possible

Note to washintonpost . A lot of things posted on Facebook are fake. Haven’t you been obsessed with this exact subject for the past few years in relation to a certain election which took place in 2016. Get over it!!!

Good because it is evidence of political Mayhem. 👍 Facebook

As if liberals have issues taking down criticisms of their stances. They've done so time and again, more efficiently than any conservative equivalent. I mean really, it is laughable!!! Oh lord. I just can't.

Facebook is good social media but is destroying himself.💔

IF I HAD a facebook account, it would have been deleted a long ....Wait a minute, I don't need to finish that. I would never have a facebook account.

Trumps big oval office sit down with social media bosses had a big impact.

I mean, it's a platform for social activity... art is social. People like editing and creating something new. How are they supposed to exclude ONE video? ... slippery slope. SpeakerPelosi

Tacit endorsement of fraud. Irresponsible.

Only youtube can be trusted to post authentic videos. Kudos to them.

Facebook is garbage

And have to delete all the Trump videos?

Proves what we knew all along that Facebook has allowed accounts that spread fake news, and buys deceptive ads. facebook finally admitted it.

Remember when MSM shared fake videos that hyped up racism? Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media outlets haven't deleted them. Oh right, because it's not a liberals doctored video, you want it deleted.

Should SNL and other comedy shows be forced off the air because of the caricatures of politicians they portray?

Want one better? Twitter actually emailed me to tell me about it. They're not only keeping the BS video up, they're letting their weird algorithm push it to people via email! I don't even follow his account - I'm trying to stop muttering profanities loudly in public. 🤷‍♀️

This isn’t smart facebook! Sean Parker; “We created a monster” seems to be true! I never signed up just for the antisocial part. I prefer likes in real life and don’t care about “friends” I hardly know or even met.

That's why I said peace out to FB!

The people have seen her. She stumbles over her words, calls people the wrong names, gets President's mixed up, staff members help her find her words. She slurs her words. She is compensating for some cognitive issues. Sometimes no one is there to help her. She needs medical help

Keep fighting the Demons Nancy God got you justsaying

I think she can handle it!

DeleteFacebook it's the only way the little jerk will learn! 😈

Fakebook

Nancy is a big girl, bigger than Trump and all of his tiny minion MAGA'ts

Probably because it's so close to the original...

Pelosi: “Faschebook should be aschamed” 🤪🤪🤪🤪

So basically Facebook sz Fk You to Pelosi. Yet another reason to consider boycottFaceBook

It's defamatory.

DeleteFacebook

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Good. It’s too funny to take down.

Because Facebook could care less about doing what's right, they're proving this time-and-time again. It's about time to delete Facebook accounts.

It now can be called 'Fakebook.'

WTF facebook?

I hope once realDonaldTrump creates the authoritarian society that facebook is helping him create, he summarily shuts them down and has them all forced into a landfill.

ShutDownFacebook

Just because Facebook 'acknowledges' it, that doesn't validate anything to be ABSOLUTELY TRUE.

But THIS one is real

facebook & gop = traitors

Question... Has Twitter taken it down ?

She stuttered on NBC and your channel, Washington Post. The videos are still up.

Trumps having people talking about a bullshit video and not about him covering up and obstructing... wow

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