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Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact checks have trouble keeping up. (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Rapidcreek to c/politics
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Remember when someone slowed a video of Pelosi to make her look drunk? It’s gonna be like that but with about a thousand times more videos. It’s funny how one side is responsible for tons of proven falsities (auto dial voter fraud, cropped videos, manufactured / out-of-context material). They absolutely believe that the ends justify the means.

Dems are also lying scum, but in that political promises way that we accept as endemic to politics. GOP straight up distorts reality to pretend things that didn’t happen are true. Not really the same.

[–] Badeendje 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And the fact that there really is nothing you can add to Trump to make him look worse. People that currently still vote for him will not be dissuaded.

The danger in the US seems to be Biden keeling over dead before Trump and the crazies yelling "genocide Joe".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We'd have to make videos of trump helping people, maybe working a soup kitchen line. I bet that would have some effect

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Nah, they'll find a way to skew that too, like Photoshopping in a poison bottle or saying look what he's wasting time on or some shit. The propaganda machine never stops with these clowns.

[–] Rapidcreek 47 points 5 months ago

Proving that a lie travels halfway around the world while the truth is still lacing up its boots.

[–] AuroraZzz 35 points 5 months ago

Republicans are only doing this because 34 felony traitor man has dementia, so they are trying to project that dementia onto biden to make it look like both candidates are crazy

[–] vegeta 14 points 5 months ago

"Why didn’t the Fake News Media, the FBI and the DOJ care about the viral videos and lies about TRUMP BEFORE the Election. Oh well, it’s OK, we won the Election anyway - 75,000,000 VOTES!!!"

-@RealDonaldTrump

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fact checkers aren't meant to keep up. If politicians empowered them enough or gave them resources none of the politicians would survive.

[–] blattrules 4 points 5 months ago

Their target audience also doesn’t care about facts so they never bother to check for themselves.

[–] dhork 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's too bad Smell-o-vision isn't a thing anymore, the Biden campaign could counter with a whiff of Baron Von Shitzenpantz.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 4 points 5 months ago

pretty sure that's a Geneva violation still

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The chair-that-was-there was just one of many quick video clips the conservative media ecosystem willed into virality over the past two weeks, leaving fact-checkers and Biden’s team with little chance to catch up.

The Republican National Committee, major conservative media outlets and right-wing influencers have succeeded in blasting out videos that they claim show “proof” of Biden’s wandering off, freezing up or even filling his pants with a substance commonly represented by a brown swirl emoji.

Independent fact-checkers and the Biden campaign have pointed out that the videos, while they are un-doctored by artificial intelligence, tend to crumble under even basic scrutiny, such as when the moments are viewed in context or from wider camera angles.

Last week, Republicans pushed a video of Biden in Europe attending the Group of Seven summit in which he allegedly “wandered off” in a confused haze before Italy’s prime minister pulled him back.

By being aggressive in fact-checking, quickly posting fuller video clips with appropriate context and calling out media outlets that report on them, the White House and the Biden campaign hope to stop them from spreading too far.

NBC News’ national poll in late January found three-quarters of voters, including many Democrats, saying they had major or minor concerns about Biden’s physical and mental health.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This headline is FAKE NEWS! But the fake videos are REAL NEWS!

[–] JeeBaiChow 2 points 5 months ago

Ai revolution hard at work, I see...