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New: Distorted videos of @SpeakerPelosi, subtly altered to make her sound slurring and warped, are spreading on social media. One video, on a conservative Facebook page where people call her a "drunk," "babbling mess," has been viewed 1.4 million times https://t.co/KpqaHUy9UJ
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) May 23, 2019
The Cheap Fake has arrived and it’s a knock off. My colleague @ParisBrittany and I have some new research to share soon on why deep fakes are not going to be the worst of it. https://t.co/ci0KwUBMaJ
— Joan Donovan (@BostonJoan) May 24, 2019
So, yeah. An altered, misleading video about the woman who's third in line for the presidency will remain available on the world's biggest social network. More people watching and sharing every second.
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) May 24, 2019
Just know this. If that doctored video distorted a CEO of a major advertiser, with little doubt a Facebook exec named Carolyn Everson would have had it down by now. This tells you all you need to know about Facebook’s priorities. But absent that, the video is revenue for them. https://t.co/W9PZWz9ay3
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) May 24, 2019
Yeah, this shit is why fact-checking will never save @Facebook, and why I wanted us to pull out of the partnership to begin with when I was at Snopes. This is the sort of inaction that doomed countless Rohingya people in Myanmar. https://t.co/sdL8gtlhVC
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) May 24, 2019
This happens more often than many of us realize.
— John Papa (@John_Papa) May 24, 2019
Regardless of who it's done to, this is wrong and harmful to all of us. https://t.co/MFhNt78BM1
Faked Pelosi video still up on Facebook, still with millions of views as it waits for fact checkers to get to it. If this is the process, 2020 is gonna be a hell of a time. https://t.co/UAZ7TLZyt0
— Patrick Howell O'Neill (@HowellONeill) May 24, 2019
Maybe there should be 5,000 vetted video providers on Facebook and that’s it https://t.co/9nrSU9tCSa
— Nicholas Carlson (@nichcarlson) May 24, 2019
If anyone thinks Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook have changed, look no further than them not pulling down a known altered video being distributed on Facebook to suggest Speaker Pelosi is slurring her speech and has something wrong going on that Donald Trump is also falsely claiming https://t.co/WTZbhuJstP
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) May 24, 2019
Cool look Facebook https://t.co/xSocVyaHWu
— Ryan Lawler (@ryanlawler) May 24, 2019
People have started calling these kinds of altered videos "shallowfakes": They're made with simple video editing, as opposed to AI-created "deepfakes." More here on the women targeted and harassed by deepfake porn: https://t.co/TCVq8LR5Da
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) May 23, 2019
This is a real danger for everyone. With technology improving so rapidly, we are almost to the point of being able to alter/imitate people's appearances and voices without noticing it's doctored. It's going to be a huge issue in the next ten years. Legit fake news/people videos. https://t.co/mD9hj9zrRi
— Rob Elgas (@RobElgasABC7) May 23, 2019
We need a way to readily authenticate videos. And we need it fast. https://t.co/PzWBSIVrfp
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) May 23, 2019
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2019 statement called out new technologies in information warfare as a looming issue that demands our attention and threatens to both warp democracies and unleash chaos unless checked. https://t.co/wJTZMrdn2W https://t.co/2sBte3gIrl
— ?? Jon B. “Globalist” Wolfsthal (@JBWolfsthal) May 23, 2019
“Facebook says it will continue to host a video of Nancy Pelosi that has been edited to give the impression that the Democratic House Speaker is drunk or unwell” https://t.co/4F5SXOkfuY
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) May 24, 2019
Update: YouTube pulled the videos after we sent them links and said they were never that prominent on the site. No response from @facebook or @Twitter in the nearly five hours since I contacted them. On FB, the distorted Pelosi video has climbed to 1.7 million views
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) May 23, 2019
Update: Facebook says the video "has been enqueued to third-party fact-checkers for review but as of 4pm PT, no fact-checker has rated" it. If deemed misleading, "we would significantly reduce the video's distribution in News Feed." Meanwhile, its views have surpassed 2 million
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) May 24, 2019
these videos were disseminated this afternoon as Trump called Pelosi “a mess” people could see “disintegrating before their eyes” https://t.co/mYPdKQLqnf
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) May 23, 2019
ps same executive who I’ve been told calls around to agencies and advertisers when there is a crisis of extreme toxicity on the platform and uses her leverage to make sure they keep their mouths shut to the press. Is the problem clear yet? It’s the business model. https://t.co/j3Ki4PA9wU
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) May 24, 2019
“[T]his type of low-tech fake shows that there is a larger threat of misinformation campaigns — too many of us are willing to believe the worst in people that we disagree with.” https://t.co/BXq0bwOHzX
— Olivia Gazis (@Olivia_Gazis) May 23, 2019
Appalling that this is allowed on social media platforms.
— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) May 23, 2019
Their inability to police themselves is alarming. https://t.co/Aw0LFSat6y
Facebook executives face a tough decision with regard to conservative misinformation:
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 23, 2019
Either take steps to counter it, which would be moderately difficult and has no upside, or do nothing and benefit from large tax cuts. https://t.co/5ehXtD5VDI
Every human being in our country is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When we strip away rights of people, we are not, as a society, living up to what the founders intended. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransHealthhttps://t.co/pHx0dIIKpj
— Rep Brianna Titone - COHD27 (@BriannaForHD27) May 24, 2019
#HumamTrafficking
— therealdeal (@podobensky) May 24, 2019
✔️ Washington DC Cop Gets
14 Years for
#ChildSexTrafficking
Article herehttps://t.co/pNJTgSH4Lk#PedoGateNews pic.twitter.com/Mgpra5ytfu
This ? is WRONG. Asylum seekers should be welcomed in the United States, not turned away and forced to wait in dangerous conditions. https://t.co/0gY5S8nJue #RefugeesShouldBeWelcome pic.twitter.com/BnreENsIeD
— Human Rights First (@humanrights1st) May 24, 2019
Pelosi videos, altered to make her seem drunk, are spreading on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook - The Washington Post - https://t.co/yJMjyyCAWp https://t.co/5hEMWjzZz5
— B⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️te/This is NOT NORMAL (@VintageKnits) May 24, 2019
WITNESS ANNE BRIDGMAN reports-Kids being held in Homestead R getting their counseling long-distance via screens-when there’s a counseling center 3 miles away. Thanks 2 this reporter 4 writing about yet another atrocity at Homestead #htt #TargetHomestead . https://t.co/RLhMI9W6dw
— Witness: Tornillo. Target: Homestead (@TornilloWitness) May 20, 2019
Prioritizing partisan politics over people means:
— Human Rights First (@humanrights1st) May 23, 2019
✖️ Desperate families stranded
✖️ Lives threatened
✖️ Tragic consequenceshttps://t.co/0gY5S8nJue pic.twitter.com/oyoEWoCvKq
A lot of hype going around the Pelosi video and what it means for deep fakes, AI-generated fake videos.
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) May 24, 2019
The truth is, those who want to spread misinformation don't need deep fakes to do so.https://t.co/speiiQRlge pic.twitter.com/6MA4Pa8Un1
The Pelosi video is only the latest example of video editing and confirmation bias at work.https://t.co/PwPagUUzou
— VICE (@VICE) May 24, 2019
Smart piece by @samleecole about algorithmic virality, the truth economy, and the widespread panic about deepfakes that ignores the people actually hurt by them https://t.co/vuoVJpttMM
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) May 24, 2019
President Trump tweeted a video of House speaker Nancy Pelosi that was altered to make her look and sound drunk. https://t.co/PwPagUUzou
— VICE (@VICE) May 24, 2019
we're still fucked, for the record! https://t.co/hh5FBRaYN8
— Samantha Cole (@samleecole) May 24, 2019
Bad actors don't need to learn to code to make us buy what we already want to see. https://t.co/S3ezzSPeDH
— Motherboard (@motherboard) May 24, 2019
Facebook has no policy that information posted to the platform necessarily has to be factual. Yet recent Pew survey says 43% use Facebook as a news source. “Facebook Scrambles for a Middle Ground on Misleading Video of Nancy Pelosi” https://t.co/5ysUuywECR
— Project Include (@projectinclude) May 24, 2019
Distorted Nancy Pelosi videos show platforms aren’t ready to fight dirty campaign tricks https://t.co/ybOBj6yKid pic.twitter.com/vlfJWxwkiD
— The Verge (@verge) May 24, 2019
Whatever your political views, this is baffling & only going to get worse.
— Caleb Wojcik (@CalebWojcik) May 24, 2019
"A Facebook spokesperson told The Verge that the clips of Pelosi would not be removed because the platform does NOT have a policy that dictates the removal of false information."https://t.co/tX7qY14SlP
This is wild and it's unsettling knowing that people eat this stuff up. Of course Fox picked one up and 45 spread it. https://t.co/pectQ3TXLS
— Cloudy ⛅ (@Psyolus) May 24, 2019
Facebook says it will continue to host a video of Nancy Pelosi that has been edited to give the impression that she is drunk or unwell, in the latest incident highlighting its struggle to deal with disinformation.https://t.co/BuZpl3ixhX
— EssenViews/Commentary (@essenviews) May 24, 2019
WTF @facebook???? Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters | Technology | The Guardian https://t.co/fHv9g3JQT7
— G Michael (@UsVsThemRedux) May 24, 2019
Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supportershttps://t.co/WM9e05MK86
— Development Topics (@DevTopics) May 24, 2019
For a company that proclaims its determination to fix the part it plays in the spread of misinformation & fake news, this is a wholly inadequate response that is also entirely too late
— Brian Rinaldi (@remotesynth) May 24, 2019
Facebook down-ranks, but won't remove, fake 'drunk' Nancy Pelosi video https://t.co/mobXkuId8F pic.twitter.com/y3AlMmvUSh
Americans Don’t Need Deepfakes to Believe Lies About Nancy Pelosi https://t.co/BYAX3gvIo0
— @ANTIGOPMVMT (@ANTIGOPMVMT) May 25, 2019
"as a Facebook representative explained in an email to Gizmodo, there’s no policy that information posted to the platform necessarily has to be factual."
— Dana Nuccitelli (@dana1981) May 24, 2019
Hey @facebook, maybe make that a fucking policy before you lower the human race's IQ any further? https://t.co/pXwmAVDW3B
Carrying the water for Nancy Pelosi most corrupt politician ever. https://t.co/dfhqY2wWHg
— End Liberal White Guilt (@Big_crusher1000) May 24, 2019
Send him a message. This fake nonsense can no longer be tolerated.
— Larry Mathys (@LarryMathys) May 24, 2019
DELETE. FACEBOOK.#DeleteFacebook https://t.co/Mgzv2yVa1w
Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters | Technology | The Guardian #DeleteFacebook https://t.co/Jurdt4aUuM
— JDP (@putinsgay) May 25, 2019
Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters | Technology | The Guardian https://t.co/Eu4XFnoxqA
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) May 25, 2019
Putinberg refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters | Facebook | The Guardian https://t.co/Z7vj2CHXgu
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) May 24, 2019
Lying doesn't violate Facebook's "community standards," but exposing racism does.
— Marsha Warfield (@MarshaWarfield) May 24, 2019
Do better, Facebook. https://t.co/k9GZHiiG8c
Facebook's efforts to justify not taking down the altered Pelosi videos is truly pathetic "we’re not going to show it at the top of News Feed.”"#Pelosivideo #FacebookSpreadsLies https://t.co/yO0fFHzKJZ
— Warren Twocock (@realtworoosters) May 24, 2019
Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters | Technology | The Guardian #MAGA #METOO #Veteran #KAGA https://t.co/vvDbuQ9Dnd
— John B. Driscoll (@stewardmagazine) May 25, 2019
Last night I posted this in a thread.
— Gregg Favre (@GreggFavre) May 24, 2019
Today, we're starting to see social media's posture, w/ @facebook choosing to leave intentionally misleading, divisive material on the platform despite its claims to better police false content.
Because of course.https://t.co/Azt02VZ6Mt https://t.co/UqPuLlR0QN