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sl8

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Wed Jun 19, 2024, 05:49 AM Jun 2024

Videos of Biden looking lost are a viral political tactic: 'low-level manipulation'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/19/joe-biden-edited-videos

Videos of Biden looking lost are a viral political tactic: ‘low-level manipulation’

Rachel Leingang

The edited videos are often posted to question the US president’s mental fitness at 81

Wed 19 Jun 2024 06.00 EDT

Joe Biden wandered off.

Standing among the west’s major leaders in Italy last week, the US president turned away, seemingly in confusion, and had to be alerted back to the group to take a photo – at least, that’s what rightwing media showed.

“WHAT IS BIDEN DOING?” the Republican National Committee’s research Twitter account wrote [see source for link].

In actuality, it was nothing strange at all. Biden had turned toward skydivers and given them a thumbs up, a broader view of the video showed.

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Videos of Biden looking lost are a viral political tactic: 'low-level manipulation' (Original Post) sl8 Jun 2024 OP
Also, manipulating videos of Democratic leaders to falsely portray them as fumbling with words has been ongoing. John1956PA Jun 2024 #1

John1956PA

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1. Also, manipulating videos of Democratic leaders to falsely portray them as fumbling with words has been ongoing.
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 05:59 AM
Jun 2024

The Right-Wing-Putin axis of deception disseminates faked videos which MAGA people gobble up and forward on social media.

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