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The
original tweet by Trump issued on June 30, showed a meme that
read "In reality they're not after me they're after you I'm just
in the way" with Trump's picture in the background.
The background picture was taken by a New York Times
photographer, to accompany a feature article on then
presidential candidate Trump in September 2015.
Twitter now displays the message "This image has been removed in
response to a report from the copyright holder," in place of the
tweet.
The move by the social media site is the latest instance of
content posted by Trump being flagged or removed, due to what
Twitter says are copyright complaints, violation of its policy
on threatening violence, among others.
Twitter removed the image after it received a Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint from the New York Times, which
owns the rights to the photo, according to a notice posted on
the Lumen Database.
The database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests
for removal of online materials.
Twitter began challenging Trump's tweets in May and has
repeatedly clashed with him since then. The president has
threatened to change laws on social media after Twitter labeled
one of his tweets about postal voting inaccurate and hid a tweet
about looting, which Twitter said fomented violence.
A campaign tribute video to George Floyd, a Black man who died
in Minneapolis police custody, was also disabled by Twitter,
Facebook and Instagram on their platforms last month, due to
copyright complaints.
Twitter and NYT did not respond when reached by Reuters for
further comment.
(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra
Maler)
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