Opponents of President Joe Biden have repeatedly circulated videos that cut his comments short. When people come across clips of public figures that have been trimmed, they should consider the source of the information and look for the full context.
, and didn’t know what he was talking about — Biden became a main target of deceptive edits that sought to reinforce that narrative.
Those efforts continued even after the campaign ended. Days before Biden was sworn in, Donald Trump Jr. shared anon Twitter that purported to show Biden looking confused about where to go after an event ended. The video received millions of views, but it showed only 19 seconds of footage from the event, and it zoomed in on Biden. The result: Viewers did not see that Biden was actually waiting for others to leave the stage before him.
they claimed showed Biden saying the N-word. In context, Biden was stumbling over his words as he said he was "eager to hear" from other world leaders at a conference.that appeared to show Biden saying the U.S. is "doomed" because of African Americans. In context, Biden was saying that "if we cannot make significant progress on racial equity, this country is doomed."supposedly showed Biden telling people that getting vaccinated would protect them against hurricanes.
"It is hard to objectively assess if a person, especially someone as high profile as the president, is aloof or not," Trauthig said of the misleading clips. "It is easy, however, to manipulate media content which delivers a clear picture in one direction."