(CNN) — The data verifiers of Facebook this Sunday they labeled as “partially false” a video who, they said, was manipulated to make it appear that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was drunk or drugged. The video had been circulating on Facebook since last Thursday and Sunday night it had been viewed more than 2 million times.
A similar and equally fake video of Pelosi It went viral on Facebook in May 2019. At the time, Pelosi criticized Facebook for not deleting the video. Instead, Facebook had applied a fact check tag to it.
Facebook also did not remove the new video on Sunday, which means it can still be seen on the platform, but a warning tag has been placed.
Videos flagged as fake are also promoted less by Facebook algorithms, the company says. Facebook said it will also send a notification to the people who shared the video to mark the fact check.
That the video has been viewed so many times is likely to provoke a new scrutiny of policies on misinformation. Pelosi’s previously manipulated video sparked similar scrutiny.
The video was verified by Facebook’s fact-checking partner, Lead Stories, on Sunday.
The video is from a press conference Pelosi gave in May in which he was asked about the false accusations what did the president do Donald Trump about MSNBC host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough.
Hany Farid, a visual forensic expert and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, reviewed the video on Sunday and told CNN that it had been edited and slowed down.
“This appears to be the same type of manipulation by (House Speaker) Pelosi that went viral last year,” Farid said.
Farid said the video should be removed according to the politics of manipulated content from Facebook. Facebook spokesman Andy Stone told CNN on Sunday night that the video did not break his policies in a way that would guarantee its removal.
“After an incident over a year ago with a previous video of President Pelosi, we took a number of key steps, making it very clear to people on Facebook when a third-party fact checker determines that the content is fake and update our policy to make explicit the type of manipulated content that we will remove. And, as always, when a video is determined to be fake, its distribution is drastically reduced and people who watch it, try to share it, or have already shared it, see warnings that alert them that it is fake. “
The video was posted by a Facebook user on Thursday with the caption: “This is amazing, she’s crazy, I bet they’re going to download this!”
The Facebook user used a copy of the video that was originally posted on TikTok, according to a graphic at the end of the video.
However, that TikTok video, which was posted in May, only had 37,000 views.
After CNN asked about the video on Sunday, a TikTok spokesman said the company had removed it for violating its “synthetic media policy,” referring to material produced, edited, and modified with the intent to misinform.
“Our users value seeing authentic content on TikTok, and so do we, so we remove misleading content as we become aware,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Copies of the video also circulated in YouTube. The company withdrew three copies of the video CNN asked about Sunday night for violating its policies in manipulated media, said Farshad Shadloo, a spokesman for YouTube.
Twitter also removed a version of the video on its platform that had more than 300,000 views after CNN asked about it.
CNN has reached out to Pelosi’s office for comment.
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