A misleadingly edited 19-second video clip of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden rocketed around Twitter on Wednesday night, creating the inaccurate impression that Biden was endorsing views commonly held by white nationalists.
The clip did not alter what Biden said during those 19 seconds. But the video and its creator's inflammatory caption --"Biden proclaims the 'European' identity of America: 'Our culture is not imported from some African nation'" -- left out essential context Biden had provided before and after the 19 seconds.
"The videoThe misleadingly edited video clip was shared by a Twitter user with the handle @mooncult, who has been critical of Biden, and supportive of rival Sen. Bernie Sanders. The 19-second clip omitted Biden's sentence at the beginning, in which he said"this is about changing the culture," and Biden's sentence at the end, in which he said he was talking about a culture that says"it" - sexual abuse - is all right.The clip, which had been viewed more than 1.
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