Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday blasted Facebook's refusal to take down a doctored video of herself, using the incident to accuse the tech giant of being a "willing enabler" of Russian election interference, reports The Hill.
"I think they [Facebook] have proven -- by not taking down something they know is false -- that they were willing enablers of the Russian interference in our election," Pelosi said in an interview with California radio station KQED News.
Pelosi was referring to a doctored video of her that had been slowed down to make her appear to be slurring her words or intoxicated. The video was posted on Facebook last week and has since been viewed more than 2.8 million times.
Facebook pushes back: Facebook decided not to remove the video but told The Hill that its fact checkers had flagged the video as false and were downgrading its distribution in the Facebook news feed.
A Facebook spokesperson defended the decision before a group of international lawmakers in Ottawa on Tuesday, saying that "it is our policy to inform people when we have information that might be false on the platform so they can make their own decisions about that content."
'Lying to the public': Pelosi said Wednesday that while she "can take it," her issue was with Facebook "lying to the public" by allowing the video to stay up.
I don't recall the good Speaker getting as upset over the posting of a doctored Trump video. Interesting.
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