White House defends doctored Trump-Acosta clip used to justify reporter's ban

even buzzfeed is calling it semantics because the clip tweeted was a gif - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/acosta-video-trump-cnn-aide-sarah-sanders >There's no evidence that the video was deliberately sped up — but the change in format, from a high-quality video to a low-quality GIF, turns the question of whether it was "doctored" into a semantic debate. >This video analysis by BuzzFeed News demonstrates what the GIF conversion process does to video. While it's not technically "sped up" by intent, it effectively is in practice. The video-to-GIF conversion removes frames from the source material by reducing the frame rate. The GIF-making tool GIF Brewery, for example, typically reduces source video to 10 frames per second. Raw, televised video typically has a frame rate of 29.97 frames per second. Using the clip created by infowars was still a bad move, and using the gif format with no sound makes it look even worse. It also doesn't show the first two times she reached for it with her other hand. edit: WH tweet in question - https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1060374680991883265