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by ignoramceisblis 2119 days ago
It's funny you mention the court system as knowing how to deal with manipulated and falsified evidence, but you imply the videos from Project Veritas, &c., were "cleverly-edited exposes," when it is the courts - and even Planned Parenthood, while in a legal case - that have found those videos to be factual, and to not have any particular omissions, and to be valid evidence:

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...

page 10:

> The district court stated, inaccurately, that the CMP video had not been authenticated and suggested that it may have been edited.

> In fact, the record reflects that OIG had submitted a report from a forensic firm concluding that the video was authentic and not deceptively edited. And the plaintiffs did not identify any particular omission or addition in the video footage.

[Planned Parenthood are the plaintiffs in this specific case.]

A bit more information on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdbu4bp5rQ

Including some of the videos referenced themselves: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCenterforMedicalProgress/videos