A video clip of CNN’s US presidential election coverage is being shared on social media where a notification tab of adult website Pornhub can be seen popping on the screen.
“CNN had Pornhub open #Election2020 #Vote2020 #CNNElection,” the caption read.
Here’s the link to the above post.
More posts can be seen here and here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above video and found it to be doctored.
We got out first clues from comments on Facebook posts and tweets where people said the picture was edited.
The tweets can be seen here, here and here.
The amount of people who think is this real is astronomical
I could’ve done a better editing job on MS Paint https://t.co/GEWbnDcJEF
— Cristal (@CristalCasellas) November 6, 2020
So many people will see this as genuine but it’s badly edited.
Watch the track motion of the logo wobble as it shrinks out of frame.
Tsk tsk. https://t.co/zPKsLq8zUt
— Lewis Wake (@lewiswake) November 6, 2020
A Facebook user also pointed out the inconsistency in the video and the pop-up notification.
Taking a clue from the above comments, we then searched further and found a tweet by Tancredi Palmeri, CNN’s sports contributor, who shared the original footage where the pop-up notification by adult website, PornHub, is not visible.
This is the original video from CNN on which was edited the Pornhub fake pic.twitter.com/bcyMwZfYPU
— Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) November 6, 2020
When we compared the two videos, we found that the notification was superimposed on the black pop up notification using editing software.
Hence, from the above information, it is clear that the video in circulation is fake.
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