Trump Retweets Video of Biden Flagged by Twitter as 'Manipulated Media'

Twitter has applied its first "manipulated media" label to a video retweeted by President Donald Trump, as first reported by The Washington Post.

The tweet was originally shared by the White House's head of social media, Dan Scavino, and it contains a video that appears to show the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden stumble during a speech and accidentally endorse President Donald Trump, saying, "We can only reelect Donald Trump."

In reality, however, Biden went on to say: "We can only reelect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged...

Twitter applied its new “manipulated media” label for the first time on Sunday to a deceptively edited video of former vice president Joe Biden. The video was shared by White House social media director Dan Scavino and retweeted by President Trump.

The video was the first test of a new policy the social media company implemented March 5 to label tweets that contain manipulated or synthetic media, ranging from edited videos to more sophisticated examples known as “deepfakes” that can fabricate events that never happened.

In this case, the altered...