At a White House press briefing in November 2018, persistent questioning of President Trump led to an intern attempting to take a microphone from the hand of CNN's Jim Acosta.[32][33] Acosta's White House press credentials were subsequently revoked, allegedly for having "put his hands" on the intern.[34][35] Watson uploaded an edited version of the original footage in support of this claim. In this version, zoom and frame rate changes create the misleading impression that Acosta had behaved aggressively towards the intern.[34] Watson confirmed that he had applied a zoom and denied making any other alterations, though expert analysis confirmed that "the clip repeats several frames that do not appear in the original footage" and that it had been sped up.[36][35] The video has generally been described as 'doctored', though some experts concluded that the changes do not necessarily represent deliberate manipulation but could be the result of artefacts resulting from accidental degradation during processing.[36][37] White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders pointed to the video that Watson posted as clearly documenting Acosta's "inappropriate behaviour." The White House was robustly criticised for sharing a doctored video and thereby spreading "actual fake news" rather than using the original footage.[38] A subsequent court ruling found that the action against Acosta was unconstitutional on due process grounds.[39]