A video clip that includes a spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign has been distorted and unfold on social media as proof the Democratic nominee doesn’t personal a gun.
“A staffer reveals that Kamala Harris doesn’t really personal a gun,” reads textual content above footage from an interview on “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta.”
Within the Sept. 20 interview, Acosta asks Harris spokesperson Adrienne Elrod in regards to the vice chairman’s latest feedback on gun possession. The trade within the video was considerably sped up and captions showing Elrod as she speaks reads: “She doesn’t personal a firearm.”
A Sept. 21 Instagram submit sharing the video was flagged as a part of Meta’s efforts to fight false information and misinformation on its Information Feed. (Learn extra about our partnership with Meta, which owns Fb, Instagram and Threads.)
The unique footage of this trade makes clear that Elrod doesn’t say “she doesn’t personal a firearm.” She says: “She does personal a firearm.”
That is additionally mirrored in CNN’s transcript of the present.
On X, Elrod reposted an announcement from Harris spokesperson Ian Sams, who known as the distorted video “the definition of disinformation.”
“Video deliberately manipulated (artificially sped as much as make the audio unclear) to mislead the viewer,” the X submit stated.
It’s not information that Harris is a gun proprietor, although it’s getting contemporary consideration because the 2024 presidential election looms. In 2019, throughout Harris’ unsuccessful earlier bid for the presidency, she stated she was a gun proprietor and an aide then advised reporters that she owns a handgun that was bought years in the past, CNN reported.
She owns the identical gun right now and retains it at her Los Angeles house, CNN reported.
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