WF-4YJCFG
Twitter flags manipulated video of activist Ady Barkan's computer voice
Twitter flagged a video shared by the second-ranking House Republican as manipulated. The video spliced quotes from activist Ady Barkan, who speaks through a computer voice assistance device, making it appear he had convinced Joe Biden to defund police departments. The manipulated content was identified and labelled by Twitter under its manipulated media policy.
- Date it happened
- 2020-08-30
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Twitter's manipulated media policy
Where this came from
Attribution
This incident was imported from washingtonpost.com. Our additions to it — the structured fields, the translation, the checks against other reports — are published under the same licence.
This is a record of what was reported, not a finding that anyone broke the law. If it names your organisation and you believe it is wrong, the corrections process is free and open to everyone.