Twitter declines Trump campaign request to tag Dem video as 'manipulated media'

[mfcorey1]

Twitter on Thursday denied a request by President Trump's campaign to put a "manipulated media" warning tag on content spread by Democrats under the social media giant's new policy aimed at curbing the spread of misinformation.

According to emails reviewed by The Hill, the Trump campaign flagged new content on Twitter that it said had been deceptively edited to make it seem like the president had called the coronavirus a "hoax."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/twitter-declines-trump-campaign-request-to-tag-dem-video-as-manipulated-media/ar-BB11q9wQ?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

[secondwind]

1. There's video of him saying this... wtf is wrong with this jackass?

[2naSalit]

2. He really thinks he's emperor. ...nt

[JHB]

3. This from the party that deliberately mischaracterized "You didn't build THAT"?

They can go piss up a rope.

This clip came up in a Biden ad not long ago, and they protested then, and the main fact check orgs did call it false, but in the most technical sense.

The actual quote is

“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that, right?” he said. “Coronavirus, they’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa.”

Then the president, who often dismissed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation as a hoax, continued, “They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trump-and-the-new-hoax/

Trump called the Mueller investigation a 'hoax'. Was it? No.
Trump called his impeachment a 'hoax'. Was it? No.

He repeatedly brushed off calls for action about the virus as Democrats puffing up a minor concern, politicizing it just to generate negative reporting of him. That was the 'hoax'. Was it? No.

And it's not mischaracterizing him to equate that 'hoax' with calling the virus a hoax. A person who didn't regard it as a hoax wouldn't have acted that way.


They dish it out with a trowel the size of an airplane wing, but instantly launch into spoiled-toddler-level high-pitched shrieking at the slightest boo-boo.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Tough luck dotard