It was therefore unsurprising that a politician was very quickly caught in Twitter’s new net.

In the deceptive 13-second clip uploaded by Scavino, Democratic candidate Joe Biden appears to say Democrats “cannot win this re-election.” “We can only re-elect Donald Trump,” he apparently says.

Just in: Twitter applied its new manipulated media label for the first time to a deceptively edited video of Joe Biden. It was shared by White House social media director Dan Scavino, and retweeted by the president. pic.twitter.com/PggcCwMNkx

— Cat Zakrzewski (@Cat_Zakrzewski) March 8, 2020