People are claiming video shared by Sarah Sanders of Jim Acosta was doctored — here's why

Social media users, including a CNN chief, claimed video of an exchange between CNN's Jim Acosta and a White House aide had been sped up. …

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[nunyabizness]

Its already been viewed by digital forensic experts and the have determined that its not doctored.

[streethoper]

It’s literally just a lower quality rendering, that’s not doctored at all

[aquawoelfly]

Why? I see/hear no explaination just 2 videos going frame by frame showing exactly the same thing in different resolutions.

[manniman]

LMAO. The doctored version is actually the one on the right which was doctored by CNN. In the doctored video on the right, there's movement IN EVERY SINGLE FRAME EXCEPT frames 13, 14 and 15 which were paused (absolutely nothing moved anywhere, they're the same frame three times) to give the illusion that Acosta's movement wasn't aggressive. You can see on the video on the left that there's natural movement elsewhere during those frames. For example, there's movement on the 2 hands up on the bottom left in those frames, there's also movement on the microphone held by the guy with the black suit and there's movement on Jim Acosta's back and microphone. Now look at the doctored CNN version, absolutely nothing changes between 13, 14 and 15, time stood still, they're the same frame three times!

[rl]

Wait... This video is supposed to prove that the video was doctored? Lol! It actually does the opposite! It proves that it wasn't!

[sahelanthrope]

Twitter supports frame rates up to 60 FPS. It does not alter frame rate or drop/blend frames when re-encoding from NTSC sources like the raw C-Span feed. If the WH were honest, they would have uploaded a clip from the original media feed which they obviously have access to. Why upload a resampled source (which suspiciously happens to have been circulated online first by an Infowars contributer), even if it weren't tampered with? As to the fact that the WH video is, indeed, of compromised integrity, see the artificially frozen frames at 13-15 and the subsequent acceleration. A small but significant time-warp.

[Kennychiwah]

It doesn't matter he didn't hit her this is stupid

[Ligamaballss]

Yeah this video was sped up. Between 13-15 seconds the right video was paused while the left was still playing.

[beep]

Are you serious?The more I see this video the madder I get.Acosta should not be a reporter cause he isn't one.ugh!!

[imagrandpa]

1. He was told to put the mike down.
2. The girl reached for the mike.
3. The girl had her hand on the mike.
4. He then pushed down on the girl’s arm.
5. After pushing down on the girl’s arm, the girl lost the grip.
6. After being “accosted” the girl sat for a while after conceding.
7. The young girl was unbelievably compliant at that time.
8. Wonder what he would have done had she not “released the grip”?

[Marnee]

She touched him, then he touched her. Neither one was assaulted.

[porkchopspapi]

Actually democrats are claiming that. What else would you expect.

[brianlittlefield]

I watched him do it live. So no, not doctored, but you can't blame CNN for trying. Desperate times, call for desperate measures.

[johndavies]

But this is NOT the doctored version!!! This is a straw man.

[retro]

Why is a “doctored” labelled in this and what does the footage has to do with what’s happening here?

[dickcastle]

she assaulted him, she clearly lunged at him to take his mic away, for having the "audacity" for asking a legit question

[tabansiobialo]

Don’t let Trump’s lies distract you away from the truth.

The truth is; she should not have been trying to snatch the mike from him in the first place.

The proper way for her to handle it would have been to hold out her hand and politely request that he give her the mike.

[DavidKolbSantosh]

No matter how you look at it Acosta behaved in a very unprofessional manner. It is not the job of a reporter to stand there and argue with the President once an answer has been given, while vending off an intern who is trying to pass the mic to the next journalist who has been called! They get to ask one or two questions and then relinquish the mic to others!

[skeeterspopi]

An accurate representation of what happened in both instances. Acosta put his hands on the intern.

[Laraul]

The videos start to diverge after frame 60, By the final frame (77) one video is clearly ahead of the other. Whether this is evidence of doctoring or not, it’s up too someone else to decide. The fact that we are having this debate is entirely the White House’s fault. Trump could have just let him ask questions and then chosen not to answer. Instead they have an intern physically try to take away the microphone while Acosta was still asking questions. And then post a possible doctored video of the “assault” as an explanation for why Acosta’s press pass was taken away. This is insane!