The livestream and the clip later edited down by Ruptly shows at least one Bible burning after midnight on Aug. 1, as some protesters were trying to build a fire. Ruptly instead made the Bible burning a focus of its protest coverage that night. In the tweets and text that accompany the video on the agency’s website, the Bible burning is presented as the night’s central event; the flag burning is secondary. RT, the network that runs Ruptly, also wrote an entire story about the Bible burning. Mr. Cheong added his own commentary to the initial tweet, wildly exaggerating what the Ruptly video showed.

Source: New York Times August 11, 2020 15:17 UTC