Twitter and Donald Trump seem like an abusive couple, for neither can they live with each other, nor can they live without. After getting into a feud with the platform multiple times in just the last few weeks, Trump still keeps posting controversial tweets, and Twitter still keeps flagging them. This tussle between the two has seen another post being marked for âfake newsâ by Twitter, just a few hours after Trump campaignâs ads on Facebook were taken down for promoting âorganised hateâ.
One would assume that the POTUS would check his sources the next time he posts something after such an incident. However, Mr. Trump went on to post yet another video on Twitter, which was flagged by the company for âManipulated Media.â
â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020
The video shows that CNN misreported a very popular clip of two friends, claiming that the media house ran the headline, âTerrified toddler runs from racist baby,â when in fact the two children were friends and were just having fun. It later says that âAmerica is not the problem, Fake news is.â
The video was flagged as âManipulated Mediaâ, clicking on which takes you to an article about how CNN actually reported the video.
Now, we know that Trump probably posted that video as a satire, and as an ode to how âFake news is the problem,â and did not actually mean to suggest that the piece was misreported by CNN. The video was indeed created by @carpedonktum, who is a famous/infamous Trump meme maker. However, something so obscure coming from the official account of the President does seem irresponsible at best, and manipulative at worst.
Twitter has been flagging Trumpâs posts left and right from a few weeks for different reasons. The sentence âWhen the looting starts, the shooting startsâ comes to mind, which was one of the first to be flagged for instigating violence. Facebook on the other hand, had been awfully quiet, and let a lot of the same posts untouched.
However, Facebook finally decided that things had officially gone out of hand when a set of ads posted by Donald Trumpâs official Facebook page housed a nazi symbol. Yes, the Supreme leader of the United States of America ran ads that had an upside down red triangle, a symbol once used by the nazis to designate political prisoners in concentration camps such as Auschwitz. The post was taken down, as the company explained that it âdoes not permit symbols of hateful ideology unless they are put up with context or condemnationâ.
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