An APFactCheck finds that video footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking was slowed down to make it seem like she was slurring her words.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a panel discussion at Delaware County Community College, Friday, May 24, 2019, in Media, Pa.
The distorted video is based on real footage from a Center for American Progress conference in Washington on Wednesday, showing Pelosi referencing her claim that President Donald Trump was engaged in a cover-up. As of early Friday, the altered version had raked in millions of views. Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at the University of California, Berkeley, said the video had been slowed down by 75 percent, creating a significant distortion in Pelosi’s speech.Experts on “deepfake” videos have been warning about the potential of digitally altered videos to push fraudulent claims.
Posts claiming Pelosi appears drunk or sluggish during events often make the rounds on social media following her press conferences.
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