It’s easy to imagine creating a rule like “Take down false examples of hate speech,” but far harder to come up with a rule that requires taking down the Pelosi video but not other forms of mockery, satire, or dissent.

Political mockery, after all, often uses information out of context and comes with intent to harm. An overly broad rule could backfire in authoritarian countries, according to Alexios Mantzarlis, a fellow at TED studying misinformation, who previously helped launch Facebook’s partnerships with fact-checkers.

“My position here is that that this does not seem to cause someone real-life harm, and that once we start taking things down, the precedent might be slippery, especially [for] politicians,” he says. It’s not hard to imagine Facebook being pressured into taking down a video making fun of someone like Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, or Donald Trump.

That doesn’t mean that there’s never a reason to take down videos (Mantzarlis says he’s not a free speech absolutist)— just that there are nuances when it comes to the types of manipulation, the potential for harm, and what platforms should do.

In any case, “leave it up” or “take it down” are not the only options. The platform did flag the video with warnings from fact-checking organizations, but Mantzarlis tweeted four other ways Facebook could have taken action more effectively.