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The title is a bit clickbaity but that’s the only story on this I could find and according to the rules, post needs to match the article’s title. Anyways, they are claiming that the government is in possession of the full video with the minute intact, not that the footage posted wasn’t missing a minute

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 44 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (26 children)

The metadata says otherwise.

I personally am not going to take the word of Pam Bondi and some anonymous government insiders on this one.

If the footage wasn't edited than this complete footage can also be independently verified by digital forensics. Until then there's no evidence to back up this claim.

Right now all we have is an unverified claim by CBS (Capitulation Broadcasting Systems) that just so happens to corroborate a Trump spokesman.

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (13 children)

Couldn’t even read the short summary…

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Dead link? Not sure what you mean there. Here's the important parts of the link I provided.

On Friday, WIRED published an analysis of metadata embedded in the video, confirmed by independent video forensics experts, which indicates that the file was assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ’s website, where it was presented as “raw” footage.

WIRED’s initial analysis found that those saves took place over a 23-minute span; however, further analysis of additional metadata shows the file was actually edited and saved several times over a period of more than three and a half hours on May 23, 2025. Specifically, the file was created at 4:48 pm and last modified at 8:16 pm ET that day. The metadata also references “MJCOLE~1,” which is likely a shortened version of a longer username. While it likely begins with “MJCOLE,” the full name cannot be determined from the metadata alone.

Both analyses found that the two clips, labeled “2025-05-22 16-35-21.mp4” and “2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4,” were stitched together. The first clip is 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 16 seconds long, but only the first 4 hours, 16 minutes, and 23.368 seconds appears in the published version, meaning nearly 2 minutes and 53 seconds were cut from the end. According to the metadata, the cut occurs just at 11:58:58 pm. The cut is milliseconds before the one-minute recording gap that Bondi said was caused by a quirk of the surveillance system. The second clip, “2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4,” picks up immediately afterward, continuing the footage from 12:00:00 am until 6:40:00 am.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Here's the relevant part of the summary that they're saying you didn't read.

Anyways, they are claiming that the government is in possession of the full video with the minute intact, not that the footage posted wasn’t missing a minute

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