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Fake Pelosi Videos Spread Across Social Media
May 23, 2019 at 3:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 129 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/23/fake-pelosi-videos-spread-across-social-media/
"SNIP....
Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), altered to make her sound as if shes drunkenly slurring her words, are spreading rapidly across social media, highlighting how political disinformation that clouds public understanding can now spread at the speed of the Web, the Washington Post reports.
The video of Pelosis onstage speech Wednesday at a Center for American Progress event, in which she said President Trumps refusal to cooperate with congressional investigations was tantamount to a coverup, was subtly edited to make her voice sound garbled and warped. It was then circulated widely across Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
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hlthe2b
(102,236 posts)EleanorR
(2,391 posts)Pathetic.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It is pathetic, especially when there are copious videos of Trump stumbling, mumbling, slurring, misspeaking, and sounding like a Grade A Buffoon without any doctoring whatsoever.
blur256
(979 posts)I watched her speaking on politico today on FB and the bots and trolls were out already saying she was drunk. Fucking scumbags.
applegrove
(118,639 posts)Still not enough