some peddling doctored videos to fit narrative

GOP under fire
after peddling doctored,
misleading videos online

While deceptively manipulating the words of someone with ALS is awfully low,
even for 2020, the Scalise missive was part of an unfortunate recent pattern.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and his team apparently thought
it'd be a good idea to release an anti-Biden video featuring doctored rhetoric
 from a progressive activist.

The apparent point of the exercise was the Louisiana Republican trying
to tell voters that Joe Biden supports "defunding the police" -- a position
Biden has repeatedly rejected.
When reality didn't give Scalise and his team what they wanted,
the congressman and his aides apparently decided to edit reality
in a more politically satisfying way.

Twitter flagged the content as having been manipulated,
and Scalise replaced the video in response to the criticism.
The GOP congressman conceded on Fox News yesterday
that the video "shouldn’t have been edited”
https://tinyurl.com/y5krjs2b

(although he REFUSED to conceed that HE should NOT have posted it)

Dan Scavino, a deputy chief of staff in the Trump White House,
posted a faked video that showed Biden appearing to sleep at
the start of a television interview. It was, however, a scam:
an actual interview with Harry Belafonte was manipulated,
with someone editing in the former vice president.

A day later, the Trump campaign promoted "a deceptively edited clip
from Biden’s Pittsburgh speech, sparking criticism from a Biden adviser
and prompting Twitter to flag the tweet as 'manipulated media.'"
Source: https://tinyurl.com/y5krjs2b

Republicans are flooding the internet
with deceptive videos

Tue September 1, 2020

Source: https://tinyurl.com/y5krjs2b

A series of deceptively edited and misleading videos shared by prominent Republicans
have run up millions of views across Facebook and Twitter in just the past few days.
And while both companies have pledged to combat misinformation, their responses
to these videos followed a familiar pattern: often they act too late, do too little,
or don't do anything at all.
Between Sunday and Monday, high-profile Republicans, including President Trump,
shared at least four misleading videos online.
Source: https://tinyurl.com/y5krjs2b

So much of the Republican base believes things that aren't true:
the party's leaders too often deliberately peddle nonsense,
cynically counting on rank-and-file voters to believe it.

Worse, there's no reason to assume these deceptive videos will
be some kind of aberration. Election Day is nine weeks from today,
and the campaign to mislead the public is likely to get worse
as the finish line approaches.
Source:  https://tinyurl.com/y5krjs2b