The NY Times has joined the fray in the battle over “cheap fake” videos, a phrase the White House has recently helped push in response to videos of Biden looking really old.
In the last two weeks, conservative news outlets, the Republican National Committee and the Trump team have circulated videos of Mr. Biden that lacked important context and twisted mundane moments to paint him in an unflattering light. Among other things, they created the impression that the president:
Wandered off during a meeting with other Group of 7 leaders, an image that The New York Post ran on its front page (he was greeting paratroopers)
This is extremely irritating and dumb. First of all, the original video that circulated online showed the paratrooper that Biden was trying to talk to. Here’s a comparison of the original clip and what CBS claimed was an altered version. They are identical.
