Facebook and Twitter refused to take down a video showing Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripping up President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech that was edited to appear as if she was doing so as Trump saluted a Tuskegee airman in the audience.
Facebook and Twitter both said the video does not violate their policies.
The video, labeled "Powerful American stories ripped to shreds by Nancy Pelosi," was posted on both Facebook and. Trump tweeted the video from his Twitter account just before 6 p.m. Thursday to his more than 72 million followers. The dispute became public Friday when Pelosi's Deputy Chief of Staff Drew Hammill posted a link to a criticism of the video Friday afternoon, writing "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.
To determine that, Twitter said it would examine videos to determine "whether the content has been substantially edited in a manner that fundamentally alters its composition, sequence, timing or framing" as well as looking at "any visual or auditory information that has been added or removed."
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