Spokespeople for Nancy Pelosi and Facebook got into a Twitter spat over an edited video of Trump's State of the Union video: 'What planet are you living on?' (FB, TWTR)

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• Speaker Nancy Pelosi's deputy chief of staff got into a heated exchange with a Facebook rep on Twitter over whether a video posted by President Donald Trump violated Facebook's manipulated content policy.
• On Thursday, Trump posted a video edited to show Pelosi repeatedly ripping up his State of the Union speech.
• Pelosi's spokesman took to Twitter Friday to criticize social media platforms for refusing to take it down, saying the video was "deliberately designed to mislead and lie to the American people."
• An ensuing argument between the spokesman and the Facebook rep highlighted a massive gray area around moderating misleading content.
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The contentious debate over moderating misleading content on social media was reignited this week after President Trump posted a video of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that appeared to show her repeatedly ripping up a copy of the president's State of the Union speech.

That drama took another turn Friday when Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, took to Twitter to criticize  social media platforms for not taking down the video, which Hammill told Business Insider it had asked both Facebook and Twitter to remove.

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