Update: AP is still up with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIMnPfFHHw
Reuters bends knee to China dictatorship and removes video of Xi and Putin talking about changing out body parts.
Presumably lots of people have copies, so it's important for them to post them promiscuously -- and if possible anonymously -- to boost Streisand effect.
@dangillmor Honestly, I think they’re trolling Donald Trump.
Much of what authoritarians do is a carefully orchestrated show.
Here they get double the effect: Show the weakness of the western media, and project strength while maybe making Trump go through some obscene procedure and hurt himself, furthering the chaos US is plunging the West into.
Just my opinion.
Dan Gillmor
Toni Aittoniemi