Trump campaign taunts Twitter with manipulated audio of Biden calling virus a 'hoax'

[RandySF]

President Trump’s reelection campaign tweeted out manipulated audio to make it sound like former Vice President Joe Biden called the coronavirus a “hoax” in an effort to draw attention to what it views as Twitter’s double standard in policing political speech.

The new Trump campaign video is styled after an ad released by the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA, which featured misleading audio of Trump describing the coronavirus as a “hoax.”

The president's campaign has flagged multiple Democratic videos for Twitter in which he is heard calling the coronavirus a "hoax," arguing that the content runs afoul of the social media giant’s manipulated media guidelines. Twitter has declined to sanction the Democratic ads.

In the Trump campaign ad released Thursday, Biden can be heard saying: “The coronavirus is a hoax.”

Biden never called the coronavirus a hoax. The audio is deceptively spliced together from two different times that Biden spoke.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/490755-trump-campaign-taunts-twitter-with-manipulated-audio-of-biden-calling-virus

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R

[Demsrule86]

2. I thought twitter was going to either take this shit down or label it false.

[MineralMan]

3. Shameful!

[BlueIdaho]

4. Conduct unbecoming...

What a ass.

[zaj]

5. Fake audio vs read audio?

This article is garbage reporting.

[world wide wally]

6. That's what happens when you run against Satan

[Snarkoleptic]

7. Ah, the stench of desperation.

I truly hope that there is zero grace for the Trump crime family, when Biden sits in the Oval in January.
Trumpism must be burned to the ground and the fields salted.