Article snippet: (Bloomberg) -- A Facebook Inc. executive told CNN the company wouldn’t remove a manipulated video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, stating that there’s no policy that says content on the social-networking website must be accurate. The video shows Pelosi appearing to slur her words and stammer, as if drunk or mentally incapacitated. In reality, someone had taken a clip of Pelosi, in which her speech was normal, and altered its speed and the tone of her voice to create the effect. Some prominent Republicans, including Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, shared the video of the California Democrat on social media. “What is wrong with Nancy Pelosi? Her speech pattern is bizarre,” Giuliani wrote in a tweet that’s since been deleted. The video has been viewed and shared on social media millions of times. YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, eventually deleted the footage. However, Facebook has declined to remove it, instead adding warnings to indicate that independent fact checkers have rated it as false and downgrading how often it appears in users’ news feeds. ‘Political Discourse’ “If it’s misinformation related to safety, we can and we do remove it,” said Monika Bickert, a Facebook vice president for product policy and counterterrorism in an interview with CNN host Anderson Cooper. “But when we’re talking about political discourse and misinformation around that, we think the right approach is to let people make an informed choice” and to work with independent ... Link to the full article to read more