Twitter flags GOP video after activist's computerized voice was manipulated

[StrictlyRockers]

Source: Washington post

Twitter flags GOP video after activist’s computerized voice was manipulated

Twitter flagged a video shared by the second-ranking House Republican on Saturday as “manipulated,” as it spliced quotes together from an activist who speaks through computer voice assistance, making it sound as though he’d convinced Joe Biden to defund police departments.

“I have lost my ability to speak, but not my agency or my thoughts,” Ady Barkan wrote to Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the House minority whip, in a Sunday tweet. “You and your team have doctored my words for your own political gain. Please remove this video immediately. You owe the entire disability community an apology.”

The dispute came down to two words from an interview Biden gave Barkan at the start of July. Barkan, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), speaks with the use of a device that reads his eye movements and translates them to an artificial voice. The interview, one of many that Barkan had done with Democratic presidential candidates, turned at one point to whether Biden would shift some funding from armed policing to social welfare.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/30/ady-barkan-scalise-twitter-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics

[George II]

1. Scalise has that same video on Twitter, not taken down yet.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. If you remember back that far

Ross Perot warned us about doctored digital evidence as far back as 1992.

Jack was one of the first CEOs to start policing fakes, and has picked up speed as other companies joined the program.

[Rebl2]

3. Scalise is

SCUM

[dem4decades]

4. If the press was really a press every question would be to Scalaise about this.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. thats one of the reasons why i quit our local paper . i dont trust em.

the press should have a lot of questions on these so and sos.

[dem4decades]

6. Quit my local paper too, Trump loving rag.

[gademocrat7]

7. Scalise is a despicable man.

[JonLP24]

8. That isn't even his issue

I believe Ady Barkan is a Medicare for All supporter.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. A lie is one thing, fabrication of evidence is another and it's called FRAUD

I'm no lawyer, but fraud is a higher hurdle and ought to be actionable as libel or slander. Or maybe we need to change some laws.

[Yeehah]

10. There is no pit low enough for these shitheel republicans

There is NOTHING they will not do to obtain or retain power.