{"id":22224,"date":"2020-02-21T17:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T01:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22224"},"modified":"2020-02-21T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T01:31:25","slug":"facebook-twitter-split-on-bloomberg-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22224","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Twitter split on Bloomberg video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter and Facebook are split on how to address an edited video from Wednesday night&#8217;s Democratic primary debate that was shared by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s verified Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the billionaire 2020 Democratic hopeful asks the other contenders if they have ever started a business. It is edited to show the other candidates on the stage appear lost for words, with the sound of crickets added to the video.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Twitter told The Hill on Friday that the video would likely be labeled under the platform&#8217;s new manipulated media policy set to roll out March 5.<\/p>\n<p>Under the policy announced earlier this month, Twitter may label or even remove media that is &#8220;deceptively&#8221; altered.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yvscypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtcsskvm_zdlrsspmpkrsdmppzfdf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yvscypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtcsskvm_zdlrsspmpkrsdmppzfdf.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1582417493936000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFD2yMhwf7dmtr3SBQn7cWguSdIDA\">confirmed<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter that the same video posted on Facebook or Instagram would not be labeled.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s policy to ban &#8220;deepfakes&#8221; &#8212; a term to describe videos altered using artificial intelligence, which does not seem to be used in this case &#8212; includes specific exceptions for satire.<\/p>\n<p>The policy &#8220;does not extend to content that is parody or satire, or video that has been edited solely to omit or change the order of words,&#8221; Facebook says.<\/p>\n<p>The video from Bloomberg&#8217;s campaign is yet another test of how social media platforms will respond to manipulated media as the 2020 elections loom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter and Facebook are split on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22225,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions\/22225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}