For the first time, Twitter has labeled a post 'manipulated media'—and it came from the White House.
Twitter's policy comes amid growing pressure on social media platforms to stop the spread of false or deliberately misleading information on their platforms, especially as the pressure of presidential campaigning increases. In May 2019, Facebook and Twitter were both widely criticized for declining to remove a manipulated video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that was slowed down to make it appear that she was slurring.
By Monday, Facebook had also taken action to give users more context on the edited Biden video. On Scavino's Facebook page, a notice over the video read:"Partly false information; Checked by independent fact-checkers," with links to news articles about it. If you try to share the video, a pop-up tells you that it contains"false information" and notifies you that a notice will be added to your post if you do decide to share.
"Fact-checkers rated this video as partly false, so we are reducing its distribution and showing warning labels with more context for people who see it, try to share it, or already have," a Facebook spokesperson told ABC News."As we announced last year, the same applies if a politician shares the video, if it was otherwise fact-checked when shared by others on Facebook.
Facebook uses third-party fact checkers to investigate content on the platform that may be misleading or false. Facebook uses automated signals as well as feedback from users, to identify potentially false content and then sends the content to fact-checkers for review. When asked, Facebook couldn't explain the two-day delay but raised the point that fact-checking partners are independent and it's at their discretion when to fact-check content.
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