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• @cat_zakrzewski Cat Zakrzewski on x

  Just in: Twitter applied its new manipulated media label for the first time to a deceptively edited video of Joe Biden. It was shared by White House social media director Dan Scavino, and retweeted by the president. https://twitter.com/...

• @danscavino Dan Scavino on x

  The video was NOT manipulated. https://twitter.com/...

• @sarahmucha Sarah Mucha on x

  The @JoeBiden campaign is putting Facebook on blast after a misleading video of Biden retweeted by Trump was labeled by Twitter as “manipulated,” but not by Facebook. @schultzohio going so far as to call Facebook's lack of action a “national crisis.” Full statement below: https:/…

• @senatorbennet Michael Bennet on x

  I commend @Twitter for limiting and labeling harmful manipulated content on its platform. People need to know whether what they're seeing on the internet is real or designed to deceive. I urge others to follow their lead. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @cat_zakrzewski Cat Zakrzewski on x

  Read this morning's Technology 202 newsletter for the latest updates on Twitter's “manipulated media” flag. Facebook has now also labeled Dan Scavino's post of the edited video: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @asharangappa_ Asha Rangappa on x

  Biden: “We can only re-elect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here. It's gotta be a positive campaign.” The video going around: “We can only re-elect Donald Trump.” (Ends) The (omitted) “if” makes it a conditional statement. Not a gaffe. https:…

• @brendancarrfcc Brendan Carr on x

  “Disinformation” is the new disinformation. We're seeing an intentional and coordinated effort by established gatekeepers to equate political speech they don't like with the entirely separate categories of doctored deep fakes, illegal content, and deceptive cheap fakes. https://t…

• @randfish Rand Fishkin on x

  Even I fell for this one and thought Biden had really said the clipped line of the edited video. Apparently it was just a pause in the sentence. Guess we better get ready for a rough eight months online. 🙄 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @thegrugq Thaddeus E. Grugq on x

  Again: you don't need fake content or lies to create disinformation. In fact, you want to use the truth as much as possible. Just, you know, not the whole truth. Selective editing is an extremely simple technique, expect to see it a lot in the coming months... https://twitter.com…

• @ddale8 Daniel Dale on x

  Biden: “We can only re-elect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here. It's gotta be a positive campaign.” The video going around: “We can only re-elect Donald Trump.” (Ends) More than six million views. http://www.cnn.com/...

• @ddale8 Daniel Dale on x

  Trump and his campaign promoted a video edited flagrantly dishonestly to wrongly make it seem Biden had accidentally endorsed Trump. Some pro-Sanders tweeters did too. The video has now been viewed more than 6 million times. http://www.cnn.com/...

• @andrewfeinberg Andrew Feinberg on x

  FCC Commissioner Carr is using his official government account to attack a private company (over which his agency has *zero* jurisdiction whatsoever) for enforcing its own terms of service ban on deceptively edited videos because it did so against the president who appointed him.…

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Outstanding. Twitter showing leadership here. This is the right move. They also should eliminate their algorithm providing any reach/velocity to it. It's a deceptive cut and should be labeled which Twitter has full right to do. Ignore @DanScavino @bennyjohnson's absurd protests. …

• @alexstamos Alex Stamos on x

  This is a good idea, but... 1) It should be applied to lots of parody videos to reduce the political fight each time it's deployed. 2) It should also take the form of a pre-roll warning, like a YouTube ad. https://twitter.com/...

• @adegrandpre Andrew deGrandpre on x

  'Twitter applied the label to Scavino's tweet at about 5 p.m. on Sunday evening, about 18 hours after Scavino first shared the video.' https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @badfoxgraphics Bad Fox Graphics on x

  2/ Hey, @DanScavino, you set a record for first manipulated tweet violation! Congrats!! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @muellershewrote @muellershewrote on x

  I'm extremely disappointed about how many social media “friends” shared this. Then argued when I said it wasn't real. Now I have credible proof and they still don't believe it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  Facebook's “unethical behavior is not acceptable, and it must change,” says the Biden campaign https://twitter.com/...

• @mollyjongfast Molly Jong-Fast on x

  Wow, trump is really changing the social media landscape https://twitter.com/...

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  The shortened video Scavino tweeted shows Biden saying “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.” The original video shows Biden encouraging Democrats to unite, “we can only re-elect Donald Trump if we get engaged in this circular firing squad, it's got to be a positive campaign.