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Eugene

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Sat Sep 5, 2020, 01:01 AM Sep 2020

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 Trump’s 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 president’s Democratic rival Joe Biden looking older than the 77-year-old former vice-president is. The ads fall in line with one of the president’s favorite attack lines for Biden: that he’s 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 campaign’s Trump War Room Twitter account tweeted a manipulated video that appeared to show Biden saying, “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s 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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Related: Trump Campaign Running Photo Ads Edited To Make Joe Biden Appear Older (HuffPost)
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