Did Twitter Censor a Video From the Trump Campaign?

The video was removed over a copyright complaint.

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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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  1. Mary Stine

    This is not the first time the Trump campaign has appropriated art without the artist's permission. I seem to remember a couple of songs that were protested for the same
    copyright infringement.

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    Brett S.

    Seems pretty straightforward, but that's our Country's problem, right? We can't get on the same page with straightforward things (online anyways). Nothing is straightforward anymore so there's fodder for both sides. Yes, it's technically true Trump video taken down and ppl will run with simply that. There's a legal reason to explain the situation but many will say, "Another example of media censoring our President."

    In reverse, we're we recently asked to accept that 'collusion' isn't a crime and because there was no charge, he can technically say Russia investigation is a joke. Here, a technicality (copyright) works against him even though it helped him (arguably) with Russia situation.

    It's like no matter what, he finds a way to influence people and win. It's truly remarkable.

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    Octávio Lima

    Are we to infer from this that the Presidential campaign in 2020 is that he is being censored on social media? Is that all?

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      Rick Harlan

      I'm sure we are. Never mind that the campaign knew exactly where to cut the YouTube version to keep it legal, which shows they knew it was a legitimate complaint.

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