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🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | I hadn't actually seen that doctored video of Nancy Pelosi. |
0:08.6 | The one that was making their rounds online until yesterday. |
0:12.9 | Let's just do one more round. |
0:19.2 | This video starts out as a regular, sort of boring, C-SPAN broadcast. |
0:24.5 | Nancy Pelosi on a white armchair at an ideas festival, talking about infrastructure. |
0:29.9 | We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country. |
0:37.4 | But the version that ended up on the politics watchdog Facebook group sounds different. |
0:43.8 | We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country. |
0:53.0 | What's interesting is just that very, very, ever-so-slite, 25% slow down in her voice makes her sound drunk. |
1:03.3 | Elizabeth Doiskin covers Silicon Valley for the Washington Post. |
1:07.2 | You can see her hands are waving, and it's almost like she's gesticulating in a slower way, |
1:13.5 | like as if she was slightly underwater. |
1:15.8 | When Elizabeth watches this video, it almost seems like she admires it, just a tad. |
1:21.6 | It was such a simple technique just slowing it down by 25%. |
1:25.7 | All they did was slow down a video a little bit. |
1:28.2 | This video that incubated on a relatively obscure Facebook group, it went viral. |
1:35.1 | How did each of the big tech companies react once this Nancy Pelosi video started spreading? |
1:41.1 | YouTube took it down very quickly, and I was actually pretty surprised by that |
1:46.3 | because YouTube is usually the last one in the most laissez-faire. |
1:52.0 | And then Facebook and Twitter left it up. |
1:58.6 | And then Facebook got even more trouble because they really dug in, and they said, |
2:03.1 | we refuse to take it down. |
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