I hadn't actually seen that doctored video of Nancy Pelosi, the one that was making

the rounds online until yesterday.

Nancy Pelosi.

Let's just do one more round.

This video starts out as a regular, sort of boring C-SPAN broadcast.

Nancy Pelosi on a white armchair at an Ideas Festival, talking about infrastructure.

We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country.

But the version that ended up on the politics watchdog Facebook group sounds different.

We want to give this president the opportunity to something historic for our country.

You know, what's interesting is just that very, very ever so slight,

25% slowdown in her voice makes her sound drunk.

Elizabeth Dwaskin covers Silicon Valley for the Washington Post.

You can see her hands are waving,

and it's almost like she's gesticulating in a slower way, like as if she was slightly underwater.

When Elizabeth watches this video, it almost seems like she admires it, just a tad.

I mean, it was such a simple technique, just slowing it down by 25%.

All they did was slowed down a video a little bit. This video that

incubated on a relatively obscure Facebook group, it went viral. How did each of the big tech

companies react once this Nancy Pelosi video started spreading? YouTube took it down very quickly.

And I was actually pretty surprised by that because YouTube is usually like the last one

and the most laissez-faire.

And then Facebook and Twitter left it up.

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