House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gone viral on Facebook, again for another video manipulated to make it seem like she is slurring her words. And just like last time, Facebook is refusing to remove the video, choosing instead to add a disclaimer, labeling it as “partly false.”
The video was posted on Thursday with the caption: “This is unbelievable, she is blowed out of her mind, I bet this gets taken down!.”
It features Pelosi at a May 20 press conference answering a reporter’s questions about the false allegations Donald Trump made against former Republican congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. The video still remains on the platform as of Monday and has thousands of interactions.
Based on the comments, viewers appear to be taking the video at face value.
“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,” Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone told CNN. “And, as always, when a video is determined false, its distribution is dramatically reduced and people who see it, try to share it, or have already shared it, see warnings alerting them that it’s false.”
Meanwhile, Youtube has removed three copies of the video from its platform for violating its policies on manipulated media, according to a Youtube spokesperson.
Facebook refuses to take down another manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi.
