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Twitter flags Trump tweet featuring fake CNN chyron as 'manipulated media'
The Hill ^ | 06 18 2020 | Zack Budryk

Posted on 06/18/2020 8:46:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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.

The tweet marks the third time the social media platform has flagged a tweet by the president.

On the first occasion, Twitter appended the president's comments on mail-in voting, a frequent topic for Trump, as containing misinformation about an election.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deplatform; racism; racistbaby; trump; trumptweet; twitter
Black Boy "Runs from" White Boy
1 posted on 06/18/2020 8:46:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Twitter was rickrolled, by POTUS.


2 posted on 06/18/2020 8:48:58 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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imho they could easily enough change “CNN” to “CCN” and people would get the idea, and then as a side benefit twatter would not have a leg to stand on.


3 posted on 06/18/2020 8:51:49 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: yesthatjallen

Always nice to see the President is having a good time.


4 posted on 06/18/2020 8:51:49 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: yesthatjallen; Jane Long
Yeah, it was CarpeDonktum, Twitter Video Guy To The President (new Cabinet position).

@jack and his creepy Lefty Moderator minions shat themselves over this.

I heard that Lefty Media bluechecks (including the execrable KyleGriffin, PMSNBC) were filling their diapers by the minute...

5 posted on 06/18/2020 8:54:40 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: yesthatjallen

Twitter is totalitarian and has decided people need to be taken by the hand on their site... ridiculous. Their safe space is a death camp of intellectuality


6 posted on 06/18/2020 8:55:53 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: yesthatjallen

Kinda childish. /s


7 posted on 06/18/2020 9:10:54 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Its not about color, its about character.)
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To: JudgemAll
Their safe space is a death camp of intellectuality

You have to leave your IQ outside Twitter when you go inside - just like opening a virtual sandbox for a PC operating system, to keep your computer safe.

The Twitterati are mouthbreathing zombie retards who Know-Nothing, just like their Demoncrat forebears.

8 posted on 06/18/2020 9:19:33 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: yesthatjallen

That’s why you always include the Sarcasm tag.


9 posted on 06/18/2020 9:22:37 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: yesthatjallen

What does that mean ‘flagged’?


10 posted on 06/18/2020 9:23:25 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: yesthatjallen

My only problem with the video is the developer misspelled “toddler” as “todler”.

If the powers think that this video is “manipulated” in such a manner that people will think it actually happened on CNN, what does that say about CNN?


11 posted on 06/18/2020 9:52:21 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Beowulf9
Twitter attaches a message to the video saying something like, 'this video is deceptively edited' or 'the facts in this tweet are in dispute'.

The goal is to discredit the tweet.

12 posted on 06/18/2020 9:55:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Trump uses “manipulated media” to stoke racial unity...CNN uses manipulated media to do the opposite.


13 posted on 06/18/2020 10:01:03 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: yesthatjallen

I never thought the chyron was real for an instant.


14 posted on 06/18/2020 10:07:54 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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>> CNN uses manipulated media to do the opposite.

CNN is ATT.


15 posted on 06/18/2020 10:22:28 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The initial video, which was widely circulated online long before the tweet, shows the two children running towards each other and embracing.

16 posted on 06/18/2020 10:36:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Twitter thinks people are morons, if this was serious and not simply an attempt to censor.


17 posted on 06/18/2020 11:06:47 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Time to BOYCOTT these Censor Nazis

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Record who runs them for future prosecution and restitution to victims.

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18 posted on 06/19/2020 2:11:43 AM PDT by elbook
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Re: CCN

This is probably an obscure NAZI acronym and twitter would still find some reason to ban it.


19 posted on 06/19/2020 5:30:29 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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