{"id":202218,"date":"2020-01-07T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/pelosi-spokesman-dismisses-facebook-decision-to-remove-some-manipulated-videos.html"},"modified":"2020-01-07T16:39:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:39:39","slug":"pelosi-spokesman-dismisses-facebook-decision-to-remove-some-manipulated-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/pelosi-spokesman-dismisses-facebook-decision-to-remove-some-manipulated-videos.html","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi spokesman dismisses Facebook decision to remove some manipulated videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"Image_zoom\"><\/figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; A spokesman for the U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed Facebook\u2019s announcement that it would remove deepfakes and some other manipulated videos from its platform as inadequate on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook wants you to think the problem is video-editing technology, but the real problem is Facebook\u2019s refusal to stop the spread of disinformation,\u201d tweeted Drew Hammill, a spokesman for the speaker. <\/p>\n<p>The social media giant had previously told Reuters that as part of its new policy it will not remove a heavily edited video that attempted to make Pelosi seem incoherent by slurring her speech and making it appear like she was repeatedly stumbling over her words. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Attribution_content\">Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/Reuters\/PoliticsNews\/~3\/nBnzQu3tyII\/pelosi-spokesman-dismisses-facebook-decision-to-remove-some-manipulated-videos-idUSKBN1Z61WD<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; A spokesman for the U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed Facebook\u2019s announcement that it would remove deepfakes and some other manipulated videos from its platform as inadequate on Tuesday. \u201cFacebook wants you to think the problem is video-editing technology, but the real problem is Facebook\u2019s refusal to stop the spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-202218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}