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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Politics
William Bender

Doug Mastriano campaign blames ‘default Facebook setting’ for deleted videos, ignores other questions

PHILADELPHIA — Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor, is sounding the “fake news” alarm over a Monday Inquirer article about his disappearing Facebook videos, claiming that they were removed due to a “default Facebook setting” that automatically deleted the videos after 30 days.

His campaign did not address why the most recent video cited in the story — recorded in late June — had already disappeared within about a week, or why many videos that are older than 30 days have not been deleted.

Jenna Ellis, a Mastriano legal adviser and former attorney for Donald Trump who was involved in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, on Monday tweeted a statement attributed to an unnamed spokesman for the Mastriano campaign.

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