Both Facebook and Twitter added warning tags on a “manipulated” video of Joe Biden.
Both Facebook and Twitter added labels denoting manipulated or false content to a video of Joe Biden that was reposted by US President Donald Trump.
This, as the edited video where Biden endorsed Trump’s presidency, was marked “partly false” on Facebook and “manipulated media” on Twitter.
Facebook, which has taken a hands-off policy on content from politicians, stated through its spokesperson that this case merited fact-checking because it had been posted before Trump reposted it, adding that Facebook was “reducing its distribution and showing warning labels with more context for people who see it, try to share it, or already have.”
Also, Facebook said that a hands-off policy on content was applied if a politician shares the video, otherwise, “fact-checked when shared by others” on its platform.
On the other hand, Twitter used its new policy in order to identify misleading content for the first time as it was previously announced that it would start enforcing a policy against manipulated content, including tweets from politicians.
The said clip posted by White House social media director Dan Scavino appeared to show Biden telling the citizens: “We can only re-elect Donald Trump.” Trump then retweeted the footage and had been viewed nearly six million times.
However, the said clip was cropped from the original footage where Biden was discussing the need for the party during his campaign speech at Missouri state until the wake of a bruising primary contest. The full text that Biden had said was: “We can only re-elect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here.“
Twitter then added a label to the said video, describing it as a “manipulated media”.
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