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Nancy Pelosi accuses Facebook of 'lying to the public' after it refuses to remove fake video

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Nancy Pelosi is calling bullshit. 

The Speaker of the House publicly castigated Facebook on Wednesday for both enabling Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its refusal to take down a video of the congresswoman that was edited to make it appear she was drunk. 

Pelosi didn't even come close to pulling her punches, arguing in an interview with KQED that the Mark Zuckerberg-helmed behemoth wasn't just an innocent victim of a foreign campaign to spread disinformation — rather, it happily played along.  

"I think they have proven that they were willing enablers of the Russian interference in our election," Pelosi said, according to Scott Shafer, a senior editor at KQED. "They're lying to the public." Read more...

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from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/nancy-pelosi-facebook-lying-to-public-fake-video/
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