Dave Karpf, a media and public affairs professor at George Washington University, said the video was clearly meant to be misleading. He said the video was “deliberately designed to mislead and lie to the American people.”ADFacebook said the video did not violate its rules. ADThe roughly four-and-a-half-minute clip interweaves video of Trump’s guests with Pelosi tearing pages of the speech. The video, Donovan said, is not nearly as bad as some other edited videos and political ads from past political campaigns. For Democrats, manipulated video is a particularly sensitive subject after conservatives last year widely shared a heavily doctored video of Pelosi that made her appear drunk.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2020 22:34 UTC