Twitter flags Trump tweet featuring fake CNN chyron as 'manipulated media'

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Twitter has flagged a tweet from President Trump as containing “manipulated media” after the president tweeted a clip of a black toddler and a white toddler edited to include a CNN chyron reading “terrified todler[sic] runs from racist baby.”

The initial video, which was widely circulated online long before the tweet, shows the two children running towards each other and embracing.

It has been edited to include ominous background music and the fictitious CNN headline. The video reverts to the original clip midway through, cutting to a title reading “America is not the problem. Fake news is.”

“This tweet has been labeled per our synthetic and manipulated media policy to give people more context,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Hill.



Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/503514-twitter-flags-trump-tweet-featuring-fake-cnn-chyron-as-manipulated-media

[Archae]

1. Can Trump and his goons do ANYTHING right?

Doesn't look like they can.

[Lonestarblue]

10. Trump isn't technically smart enough to manipulate digital images.

He must have aides who do nothing but search conspiracy sites to find garbage like this. These things smack of Stephen”the Nazi” Miller or someone working with him. What a waste of taxpayer money.

[brokephibroke]

2. Two points

Twitter rocks and trump is an immature, anti-American POS.

[Miguelito Loveless]

11. Not giving credit to Twitter

It should have been deleted.

[babylonsister]

3. He's sick, immature, and unstoppable? That's scary, too. nt

[Midnight Writer]

4. Why would you take a sweet video like that and distort it to make it look racist?

What kind of perverted mind would you need to even conceive this?

And then Trump decides this is a message he wants to put out there?

Christ!

[Lock him up.]

6. He wants to lose by 20 points (not 12)...

12 is too low for him.

Lock him up.


(What does the fact the 25th is not yet enacted say about the character of his Russiapublican cabinet?)

[Doug.Goodall]

9. It is going to be a dRump slide.

He wants to claim credit for the greatest political statement in history. If he can't be the all time best, he will be the all time worst. Trump's place in history is secured.

[miyazaki]

7. IKR!

[Initech]

5. Can't wait for the rage tweet in 3... 2.. 1...

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The irresponsible faker was "Carpe Donktum" - invited to the White House

Twitter suspended Carpe Donktum, prolific pro-Trump meme creator, for a copyright violation

Donktum attended the White House social media summit in July

One of President Donald Trump’s most prolific supporters and meme creators, known online as Carpe Donktum, was briefly suspended from Twitter Monday after a video depicting the president killing off journalists and critics, created by people connected to him, surfaced over the weekend.

The New York Times reported that the video was played at a pro-Trump event in Florida over the weekend, causing significant uproar among the press, many of whom saw it as encouraging violence against journalists. On Monday, The Washington Post reported that the video was created by TheGeekzTeam, a group of creators that often contributes to MemeWorld, which was created by Carpe Donktum.

The account was restored shortly after it was suspended — but according to Twitter, the problem was copyright, not carnage. Reached for comment, a Twitter representative said the company took down the account in response to a complaint from a copyright holder, and referred The Verge to the platform policy on such violations.
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Donktum’s content has frequently appeared on Trump’s Twitter feed throughout his presidency. In November 2018, Donktum gained significant recognition from right-wing communities after winning an Infowars meme contest. The following February, Trump shared a video of the 2019 State of the Union address created by Donktum edited to make Democrats seem inattentive.

Donktum also attended the White House’s social media summit over the summer.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/14/20914175/twitter-bans-trump-meme-account-carpe-donktum-journalist-video

He actually told Fox News "hate is poison to comedy", which explains why his shit isn't funny.

[stillcool]

12. same shit, different day..

[SeattleVet]

13. They hd to put the tag on it for his followers.

The rest of us knew it was fake, because we know that CNN would spell 'toddler' correctly, and not as 'todler' like this knuckle-dragger managed to do.

[ck4829]

14. Kick

[FakeNoose]

15. The only possible solution - Twitter needs to BAN CHUMP

Kick him off the internet. Stop giving him the free platform, he has clearly shown he doesn't deserve it.

In my opinion Chump doesn't even understand that somebody else doctored that photo. He doesn't understand how indoctrination works because he's already been brainwashed by the racist hackers. They're using him and he's using Twitter to help them. Only Twitter can make this stop.