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    Doctored video of Nancy Pelosi shows social media giants ill-prepared for 2020

    by Sam Dean and Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times May 25, 2019 4 minutes

    Hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed a conference Wednesday, a distorted video of the California Democrat's conversation began spreading across the internet.

    The manipulated clip, slowed to make Pelosi sound as if she were slurring her words, racked up millions of views on Facebook the following day. It was posted to YouTube, and on Thursday night was given a boost on Twitter when Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer and former mayor of New York, shared a link with his 318,000 followers.

    By Friday, the three social media giants were forced to respond to this

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