Conservatives Slam NBC for Accusing Conservative of ‘Deceptively Edited’ Videos of Fetterman
NBC News is receiving criticism after claiming that a conservative social media user “deceptively edited videos” of John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s Senate seat. On Wednesday, NBC News published…
NBC News is receiving criticism after claiming that a conservative social media user “deceptively edited videos” of John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s Senate seat.
On Wednesday, NBC News published a report written by Ben Goggin titled, “Doctored videos exaggerate Fetterman speech issues in viral social media posts.”
Goggin claims the “deceptively edited videos” have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on both Twitter and TikTok.
According to Goggin, the videos were shared by critics of Fetterman.
The outlet noted Fetterman suffered a stroke in May.
“The videos include slight edits, such as cutting out the sound of the audience to make it appear as if he had abruptly stopped speaking (some of the stops occurred when he was pausing during moments of applause and crowd reaction, according to unedited videos seen by NBC News),” Coggin wrote.
He continued, “Other edits cut Fetterman off midsentence, to create the perception that what he was saying was nonsensical.”