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[Lord Jim]

Doctored videos shared to make Pelosi sound drunk viewed millions of times on social media

(CNN)A manipulated video being shared by some social media users to spread a false claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurred her words after meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday has been removed by
YouTube, the company told CNN on Thursday.

The crudely edited video comes amid warnings from the US intelligence community that more sophisticated video manipulation may be part of future disinformation campaigns targeting the American electorate.
The video, which shows Pelosi's onstage comments at the Center for American Progress on Wednesday, has been slowed down, which makes her words seem slurred.

Pelosi's spokesman declined to comment on the video when contacted by CNN. When asked about this video and other manipulated videos targeting Pelosi, her spokesman Drew Hamill told The Washington Post, which first reported the story, "We're not going to comment on this sexist trash."

Although the video has been removed by YouTube, copies of it were still circulating on Facebook and Twitter on Thursday evening.

"By my calculation, the altered video has been slowed by almost 75% introducing a significant distortion in her speech," Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and expert in digital forensics and image analysis, told CNN.

A Facebook representative told CNN on Thursday that the Pelosi video had been referred to the company's third-party fact checkers for review. On Friday, the company said one of its fact checkers had said the video was false.
Because of that determination, Facebook will downrank the video, meaning it will show up in fewer users' News Feeds. The video will remain on the platform, however. Just one version of it had 2.5 million views on the platform as of Friday morning, according to Facebook's metrics.

YouTube, which is owned by Google (GOOG), removed the video, its spokesperson told CNN.

On Thursday night, Fox Business' 7 p.m. ET show featured a segment in which panelists speculated about Pelosi's health and competence on the basis of an edited clip of her recent speech. Trump subsequently tweeted the clip with a disparaging comment.

A short time later, Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani also tweeted -- and then quickly deleted -- a video raising similar questions about Pelosi's fitness on the basis of an edited clip.

In January, US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned Congress of a new artificial intelligence-based technology, known as deep fakes, that make realistic video manipulation possible.

"Adversaries and strategic competitors probably will attempt to use deep fakes or similar machine-learning technologies to create convincing -- but false -- image, audio, and video files to augment influence campaigns directed against the United States and our allies and partners," Coats wrote in the DNI's Worldwide Threat Assessment.

But Farid said the less sophisticated editing of the Pelosi video shows that peddlers of misinformation don't need high tech.

"It is striking that such a simple manipulation can be so effective and believable, to some," Farid told CNN. "While I think that deep-fake technology poses a real threat, this 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://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics ... index.html

[RayThom]

"Drunk Nancy Pelosi"... Jimmy Kimmel does the same thing with Trump on a regular basis.

Check out the Pelosi vid: Real vs. Fake

https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/368 ... 2147320222