Donald Trump campaign repeatedly doctoring videos for social media ads
Source: The Guardian
Donald Trump campaign repeatedly doctoring videos for social media ads
Analysis shows footage of Biden edited to make him look older
Twitter flags Trump campaign videos as manipulated media
Daniel Strauss
@danielstrauss4
Fri 4 Sep 2020 19.38 BST
Donald Trumps presidential re-election campaign has repeatedly produced manipulated online content over the past week.
The Trump campaign published a set of Facebook ads that featured the presidents Democratic rival Joe Biden looking older than the 77-year-old former vice-president is. The ads fall in line with one of the presidents favorite attack lines for Biden: that hes too old and infirm to run for president. (Trump is 74 years old.)
The Facebook ad read: President Trump knows that the Fake News Media will NEVER report accurately on his standings in the polls against Sleepy Joe. We want the truth, and we need to hear it directly from REAL Americans, like YOU.
The pictures,
analyzed by HuffPost, show a picture of Biden had been edited to make him look older, by darkening his skin and emphasizing imperfections.
On Monday the campaigns Trump War Room Twitter account tweeted a manipulated video that appeared to show Biden saying, You wont be safe in Joe Bidens America. The video was labelled manipulated media by Twitter.
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Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/04/donald-trump-campaign-doctoring-joe-biden-videos-manipulated-media-twitter
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