Twitter labels doctored video shared by Trump as ‘manipulated’

Microblogging site Twitter has placed the label of “manipulated media” on a doctored video of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, which was shared by US President Donald Trump. The video was originally tweeted by White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino on Sunday and retweeted by President Trump, as per media reports.

This is the first time Twitter used its new policy of labeling misleading content as “manipulated media.”

Last week Twitter revealed the label to counter synthetic videos like deep fakes, The Week reported.

The video which was labeled as manipulated shows Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden saying “We can only re-elect Donald Trump” during a speech on Saturday in Kansas City, Missouri. However, Biden’s full sentence was: “We can only re-elect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here. It’s gotta be a positive campaign.”