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Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Sun Feb 02, 2020 3:55 pm
Published 1 hour ago, Last Update 49 mins ago Trump, in Super Bowl interview with Sean Hannity, predicts fall of Pelosi: 'Radical left is gonna take over'
Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:00 am
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Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:20 am
And there goes my oatmeal. Jayzuz hep us.
The Wise And Powerful Admin
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Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Sun Feb 09, 2020 3:24 pm
Pelosi Clashes With Facebook and Twitter Over Video Posted by Trump Michael Levenson,The New York Times • February 9, 2020
Facebook and Twitter have rejected a request by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove a video posted by President Donald Trump that was edited to make it appear as though she were ripping a copy of his State of the Union address as he honored a Tuskegee Airman and other guests.
The decision highlighted the tension between critics who want social media platforms to crack down on the spread of misinformation and others who argue that political speech should be given wide latitude, even if it’s deceptive or false.
The debate has accelerated during the 2020 presidential campaign, as Democrats in Congress have demanded that Facebook and other tech companies take tougher action while figures on the right have argued that such policing could muzzle conservative viewpoints.
Into that highly politicized environment came the video posted by Trump to his Twitter account Thursday.
The roughly 5-minute clip shows Pelosi repeatedly ripping his speech in between snippets of him paying tribute to the airman, Charles McGee, as well as other guests he had invited to the State of the Union, including military families. In fact, Pelosi ripped a copy of Trump’s speech immediately after his address to Congress on Tuesday.
Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, on Friday demanded that the video be removed.
“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,” Hammill wrote 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,” he wrote.
But both companies rejected the request.
Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesman, responded to Hammill on Twitter, writing, “Sorry, are you suggesting the President didn’t make those remarks and the Speaker didn’t rip the speech?”
Hammill shot back at Stone, writing: “What planet are you living on? this is deceptively altered. take it down.”
On Saturday, Stone said that the video did not violate Facebook’s policy on manipulated media.
The policy states, in part, that Facebook will remove videos that have been edited or synthesized “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 that they did not actually say.”
In the case of the video posted by Trump, “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,” Stone wrote on Twitter.
A Twitter spokeswoman, Lindsay McCallum, wrote on Saturday that, beginning March 5, the company would start applying labels that read “manipulated media” on heavily edited videos like Trump’s.
Twitter said it may also show a warning to users before they retweet or like a tweet with a manipulated video and may reduce the visibility of such tweets.
Trump’s campaign said that the video, titled “Powerful American Stories Ripped to Shreds by Nancy Pelosi,” was clearly a parody.
“If Nancy Pelosi fears images of her ripping up the speech, perhaps she shouldn’t have ripped up the speech,” Tim Murtaugh, a Trump campaign spokesman, said Saturday.
The campaign referred questions about the origin of the video to the White House, which did not respond to a request for comment.
The video isn’t legally actionable and shouldn’t be taken down, said Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard Law School professor and a founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. But, he said, Facebook and Twitter should probably label the video.
“It’s important for social media sites that have massive reach to make and enforce policies concerning manipulated content, rather than abdicating all responsibility,” Zittrain said.
Labeling is helpful, he added, because “even something that to most people clearly appears to be satire can be taken seriously by others.”
Of course, deceptive political ads aren’t a tool exclusive to the internet age, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said.
In 1968, Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign created an ad showing his opponent, Hubert Humphrey, addressing the Democratic National Convention interspersed with scenes of fighting in Vietnam, demonstrators being beaten in the streets of Chicago and poverty in Appalachia, she said.
In another ad, from 1960, John Kennedy’s presidential campaign edited clips of Nixon to show him sweating, appearing distracted and nodding and seeming to agree with Kennedy while Kennedy was speaking, Jamieson said.
She warned against tech companies policing such content.
“Historically, we don’t want anybody getting in the way of candidates speaking to the electorate,” she said. “We want the press and the opposing candidates to hold them accountable for deception.”
Facebook’s decision not to remove the video came after it honored a request by Pelosi’s office and took down a video on Thursday that was doctored to make it appear as though she were swallowing Tide Pods.
The video, which was still posted on Twitter on Saturday, was apparently made by manipulating a 2018 video of Pelosi sampling chocolates on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”
Facebook said that video violated a policy against showing people eating Tide Pods, which it created in 2018, after videos spread on social media encouraging people to bite down on the brightly colored laundry detergent packets.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
Temple Regular Member
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Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Sun Feb 09, 2020 3:41 pm
About twitter; have to say-- twitter allows trump to break rules that others are punished for..
I do not do social media- it's the worst thing to happen to America (and world) Facebook and twitter ..
if I had the power I'd eliminate politics and news from both.. all the other nonsense junk, have at it..
The Wise And Powerful Admin
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Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Sun Feb 09, 2020 3:44 pm
Temple wrote:
About twitter; have to say-- twitter allows trump to break rules that others are punished for..
I do not do social media- it's the worst thing to happen to America (and world) Facebook and twitter ..
if I had the power I'd eliminate politics and news from both.. all the other nonsense junk, have at it..
Yet you continually post Tweets. You must pill them outta your ass.
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Temple Regular Member
Posts : 7317 Join date : 2014-07-29
Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Sun Feb 09, 2020 3:56 pm
The Wise And Powerful wrote:
Temple wrote:
About twitter; have to say-- twitter allows trump to break rules that others are punished for..
I do not do social media- it's the worst thing to happen to America (and world) Facebook and twitter ..
if I had the power I'd eliminate politics and news from both.. all the other nonsense junk, have at it..
Yet you continually post Tweets. You must pill them outta your ass.
.
Nope. no twitter.. Most I see are in news reports.. the link is always provided. I see it, take from there.
do you do twitter? if so, why?
The Wise And Powerful Admin
Posts : 111040 Join date : 2014-07-29 Age : 101 Location : A Mile High
Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Sun Feb 09, 2020 4:07 pm
Temple wrote:
The Wise And Powerful wrote:
Temple wrote:
About twitter; have to say-- twitter allows trump to break rules that others are punished for..
I do not do social media- it's the worst thing to happen to America (and world) Facebook and twitter ..
if I had the power I'd eliminate politics and news from both.. all the other nonsense junk, have at it..
Yet you continually post Tweets. You must pill them outta your ass.
.
Nope. no twitter.. Most I see are in news reports.. the link is always provided. I see it, take from there.
Nice backpedal
Quote :
do you do twitter? if so, why?
To expand my knowledge, of course.
I'm sorry that you have to glean left leaning and/or fake news to get your "pearls of wisdom".
Social media has replace the Pony Express, Temple. Relish in the technology of it.
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Grackle
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Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Sun Feb 09, 2020 4:16 pm
Temple wrote:
if I had the power I'd eliminate politics and news from both..
Of course you would ...That's what the left does, stifle opposing views
If you weren't such a sniveling, whining crybaby, you'd spout your drivel on twitter at the ones causing your disgruntled prattle, rather than wheeling the twitter shit over here to show it to us ..Shit, you could sound off at Trump himself ... but you'd rather stay here and complain
The Wise And Powerful Admin
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Subject: Re: Nancy Pelosi Sun Feb 09, 2020 4:20 pm
'You should be ashamed': Critics unleash on Pelosi for showing off freezer loaded with ice cream by Emma Colton | April 16, 2020 10:06 AM | Washington Examiner
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took some heat for showing off her freezer packed with ice cream during the coronavirus crisis.
The California Democrat joined comedian James Corden on his late-night show Monday and showed off how much ice cream is in her freezer in addition to wondering how Trump’s base could still support him after his response to the pandemic.
"I don't know what I would've done if ice cream were not invented," she said via video conference from her home.
After the interview, she followed up in a tweet, writing: "We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times. Mine just happens to fill up my freezer.
Many Twitter users reacted negatively to the interview, suggesting it was tone-deaf in light of many people struggling financially during quarantine measures.
“While Nancy Pelosi sits in her ivory tower in San Francisco, eating $13 dollar a pint ice cream out of her $24,000 fridge, she is cheering on Democrats for blocking coronavirus relief aid that has so far been distributed to 1.3 million small businesses that is about to run out,” the Republican National Committee’s rapid response director, Steve Guest, tweeted.
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