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Article snippet: Speaker interview with California radio station KQED News. Pelosi was referring to a doctored video of her that had been slowed down to make her appear to be slurring her words or intoxicated. The video was posted on Facebook last week and has since been viewed more than 2.8 million times. Facebook decided not to remove the video, but told The Hill that its fact-checkers had flagged the video as false and were downgrading its distribution in the Facebook news feed. A Facebook spokesperson defended the decision before a group of international lawmakers in Ottawa, Canada, on Tuesday, saying that “it is our policy to inform people when we have information that might be false on the platform so they can make their own decisions about that content.” Pelosi said Wednesday that while she “can take it,” her issue was with Facebook “lying to the public” by allowing the video to stay up. Pelosi added that Facebook not taking down the doctored video called into question the company’s assertion that it was the victim of Russian online interference that was meant to sway the 2016 presidential election. "We have said all along, 'Poor Facebook, they were unwittingly exploited by the Russians,'” Pelosi said. “I think wittingly, because right now they are putting up something that they know is false. I think it's wrong.” Multiple Democrats in the House and Senate have heavily criticized Facebook for its decision. House Majority Leader MORE (D-Md.) told The Hill on Wednesday that ... Link to the full article to read more