How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter dealt with the doctored video of Pelosi may serve as a warning of what’s to come in 2020.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been verbally clashing with President Trump this week when a doctored video of her went viral.
And for those who had hoped that new technology, stricter standards and the full attention of these powerful Silicon Valley companies might stem the tide of lies, the case of the Pelosi video does not bode well. “We work hard to find the right balance between encouraging free expression and promoting a safe and authentic community,” the spokesperson said. “We believe that reducing the distribution of inauthentic content strikes that balance. But just because something is allowed to be on Facebook doesn’t mean it should get distribution. In other words, we allow people to post it as a form of expression, but we're not going to show it at the top of News Feed.
Kat Lo, a researcher at UC Irvine who studies content moderation, said companies like Facebook and YouTube have improved since 2016 — but not enough. It's well-documented that Twitter has not been able to sufficiently manage hateful content on their platform, Lo said, and while the company has been hiring teams to combat this problem, it has not proven it can successfully intervene when content that contributes to radicalization and disinformation is circulated.
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