‘PARTLY FALSE’ PELOSI VIDEO GOES VIRAL ON FACEBOOK

A manipulated and widely shared video that depicts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her speech and appearing intoxicated was labelled “partly false” by Facebook over the weekend, renewing scrutiny of social media and its role in reining in misinformation. TikTok, Twitter and YouTube all removed the footage after CNN inquired about it on Sunday, but it remains on Facebook. The news outlet says the video has been viewed more than 2-million times. The altered video, which originally appeared on TikTok, originated from a May 20 news conference in which Pelosi addressed President Donald Trump’s tweets about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. A user posted it on Facebook on Thursday evening with the caption, “This is unbelievable, she is blowed out of her mind, I bet this gets taken down!”