But Facebook, where the video appeared to gain much of its audience, declined Friday to remove the video, even after Facebook’s independent fact-checking groups, Lead Stories and PolitiFact, deemed the video “false." “We don’t have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true,” Facebook said in a statement to The Washington Post. In the 24 hours after The Post alerted Facebook to the video, its viewership on a single Facebook page had nearly doubled, to more than 2.5 million views. But with clearer distortions like the Pelosi video, the company should respond more quickly and decisively to potentially stifle the disinformation before it gains a life of its own. He tweeted a link to the Facebook page Thursday evening — “What is wrong with Nancy Pelosi?

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2019 20:15 UTC