Facebook, Twitter reject Nancy Pelosi's plea to remove Trump's video

Both Facebook and Twitter have denied House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request to remove an edited video posted by US President Donald Trump. The video which took the internet by storm showed Pelosi repeatedly tearing up Trump's State of the Union speech as he honoured audience members and showed a military family reuniting. Watch the video here:

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'Deliberately designed to mislead'

The video left many of Pelosi’s supporters and Democrats raged. Pelosi’s chief of staff, Drew Hammill took to Twitter to express his views on the entire incident.

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Meanwhile, both the tech giants have rejected Pelosi's plea after stating that the doctored video did not violate any policy especially when she had actually torn the US President's speech after his address. The fact of the matter is that Pelosi did tear the pages of her copy of the speech but only after it was finished, and not throughout the address as the video depicts.

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