Update: Pelosi’s Staff Gets Nuked Trump Style By Facebook Spokesman Over Video
Earlier this week we reported that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was directing her staff to have a video of her tearing up the President’s State of the Union speech removed from Facebook and Twitter. After being told no by Facebook and Twitter Pelosi’s staff doubled down demanding the video be removed and a spokesman from Facebook nuked her staff, Trump-style.
Pelosi was attempting to have a video removed from all social media platforms because it shows her ripping up the President’s SOTU speech as the President honors each guest. The five-minute video, which features the words “POWERFUL AMERICAN STORIES RIPPED TO SHREDS BY NANCY PELOSI” was tweeted by the President on Thursday. The video is edited and shows Pelosi ripping up the speech every time the President introduced one of his guests. Of course, in reality, Pelosi ripped the speech at the conclusion of President Trump speaking.
Pelosi’s office demanded social media giants take the video down because it claims the video is deceitful.
“The American people know that the President has no qualms about lying to them – but it is a shame to see Twitter and Facebook, sources of news for millions, do the same,” Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s chief of staff, said on Twitter. “The latest fake video of Speaker Pelosi is deliberately designed to mislead and lie to the American people, and every day that these platforms refuse to take it down is another reminder that they care more about their shareholders’ interests than the public’s interests.”
The latest fake video of Speaker Pelosi is deliberately designed to mislead and lie to the American people, and every day that these platforms refuse to take it down is another reminder that they care more about their shareholders’ interests than the public’s interests.
— Drew Hammill (@Drew_Hammill) February 7, 2020
After that little rant a spokesman from Facebook, Andy Stone directly responded to Hammill and said, “Sorry, are you suggesting the President didn’t make those remarks and the Speaker didn’t rip the speech?”
Stone then explained the Facebook policy, “The reason I was making the point about the fact that the things featured in this video actually happened is because that’s a key element of our policy on content like this.”
Sorry, are you suggesting the President didn’t make those remarks and the Speaker didn’t rip the speech?
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) February 7, 2020
The reason I was making the point about the fact that the things featured in this video actually happened is because that’s a key element of our policy on content like this. https://t.co/CAtmBPczlG
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) February 7, 2020
A Facebook spokesperson told Fox Business that they will only remove videos that have been “edited or synthesized-beyond adjustments for clarity or quality- in ways that aren’t apparent to an average person and would likely mislead someone into thinking that a subject of the video said words they did not actually say.”
Twitter on the other said that it will not remove the video but videos like this will have a “warning label” that will say “manipulated media.”
Good for Facebook not backing down but one must wonder how long they can hold out.
