Did Twitter Censor a Video From the Trump Campaign?

On Friday, Donald Trump took to Twitter to accuse the social media platform of censoring a video from his campaign:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1269071790015471621

The Trump campaign had made the same accusation of censorship earlier in the week, via Twitter:

https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1268642162167762947

The video, which was also removed from Facebook but can still be watched on YouTube, features clips and images from the protests against police brutality against African Americans in the wake of the death of George Floyd, with a speech by Trump playing in the background. Here is one of the images that appears in a longer version of the video, which is available at the Daily Mail. (More on that below.)

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