LONDON (AP) — Twitter has slapped another label on a tweet by President Donald Trump, this time warning that a video he shared was doctored and escalating the social media company’s crackdown on one of its most widely followed users.
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After Trump tweeted the video late Thursday, Twitter took the rare step of adding a warning that it was “manipulated media” and linked to a page that said multiple journalists confirmed the clip was edited to make it look like a CNN broadcast. The video remains visible in Trump’s timeline.
The doctored clip used footage from a video that went viral last year of two toddlers, one black, one white, which CNN used for a story it did on the boys’ friendship.
The video Trump shared begins with footage of the boys running set to ominous music, with a fake misspelled CNN caption reading, “Terrified todler runs from racist baby.” Then it cuts to other footage from the original video of the boys excitedly running to each other and hugging, which formed the basis of the original CNN story, before showing the message, “America is not the problem. Fake news is.”
It’s the latest salvo in the battle between Trump and tech companies, which he has accused of silencing conservative voices. Trump lashed out at Twitter last month after it added fact-check warnings to two of his tweets on mail-in voting, and vowed to add new regulations to rein in social media companies.
Twitter in March used the “manipulated media” warning to mark a video of Biden shared by President Donald Trump.
So @POTUS just tweeted a fake, suggesting @CNN covered these toddlers like this. In reality this is how CNN reported this in 2019: Internet falls in love with these two toddlers hugging https://t.co/ydsxu8lTOC https://t.co/FHC7TgQeMo
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 19, 2020
CNN lies all the time about the president.
Why do you publish constant AP anti Trump propaganda ?.
Clicks , so that you get more comments and money ??
Its so ironic that for years the fake news did the same thing and now when trump beats them at their game they go all crazy. A cassic fake news tactic is to interview people and only dispaly bits and pieces that they wnat to display. We have heard numerous times how people were interviewed and they’d take one sentence out of context and would only display, the out of context part of the video. They have tricked many people that way. I am old enough to recall when they falsely claimed Israel terroized an arab kid and showed him near a tank. Only to find that out after it was doctored. Meanwhile, yiddisha blit was spilled over the fake pic that enraged those filthy Palestinian animals.
We live in a double standrad society where being a trump supporter is toxic. So very sad
Here’s a RATHER:
Be at an exciting Trump rally , or in Uncle Joe’s basement.
They’re scrambling to keep our POTUS from communicating with the American people.
Stupid DevilcRats.
The mob they’re legitimizing will soon turn on them and fress them for snack.
” First they came for ….. etc… “