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The
move was the second action Twitter took related to Trump's
tweets within 24 hours. On Tuesday it hid a tweet from Trump
threatening "serious force" against protesters in Washington DC,
which Twitter said violated its policy on threatening violence.
Twitter has repeatedly clashed with Trump since it began
challenging his tweets in May. The president has threatened to
change laws on social media after Twitter labelled one of his
tweets about postal voting inaccurate and hid a tweet about
looting, which Twitter said fomented violence.
Last week, Twitter put the "manipulated media" designation on a
tweet from Trump that showed a doctored news clip from CNN. The
original clip was a cheerful story of a viral video showing
Black and white toddlers who were best friends; the doctored
version added a misspelled banner flashing "Terrified todler
runs from racist baby".
The doctored video was first posted by Carpe Donktum, an account
known to support Trump. Twitter said early on Wednesday it had
suspended the account indefinitely for "repeated violations" of
its policy on posting copyrighted material.
"I received a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown
order this morning for that video, and a few hours later a
suspension letter", Donktum posted
https://carpedonktum.locals.com/
post/73661/i-have-been-permanently-suspended-by-twitter-for-the-todler-video-that-president-trump-tweeted-last
on Locals, another digital content platform. Twitter did not
provide him a way to get the suspended account back, "So I
assume they intend this to be final and permanent," he said.
Donktum's account was revoked in last July for eight days, over
a video depicting Trump as a cowboy attacking CNN journalist Jim
Acosta.
(Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Graff)
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