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What if Twitter closes Trump's account? 1:27
New York (CNN Business) - On Thursday night, Twitter tagged a video tweeted by United States President Donald Trump as "manipulated." This is the third time Twitter has cracked down on Trump in a month.
Trump tweeted a video with a fake CNN graphic; the video says: “The United States is not the problem. Fake news is. "
A Twitter spokesperson said Thursday night: "This tweet has been tagged under our artificial media policy and manipulated to give people more context."
The video, which lasts 60 seconds, begins with images from a part of a viral video that shows a black boy running away from a white boy. The fake CNN graphic reads: "Terrified child runs away from a racist baby."
Then the rest of the video is shown, in which the two children run to hug.
CNN reported the full version of the viral video in 2019.
A CNN spokesperson responded to Trump's tweet Thursday night, “CNN covered this story, but exactly how it happened. Just as CNN has reported their [Trump's] career positions (and their poll numbers). We will continue to work with facts and invite you to do the same, instead of tweeting fake videos that exploit innocent children. Be better".
The video Trump tweeted included a credit to @CarpeDonktum, who regularly posts memes and parody videos supporting the president.
After Trump tweeted the video, it quickly went viral, racking up millions of views in less than two hours.
Twitter twice marked Trump's tweets in the past month, enraging the president and his supporters and even inciting the president to sign a decree targeting social media companies.
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In May, Twitter tagged two Trump tweets that made false claims about voting by mail in California.
A few days later, Twitter called a Trump tweet in a glorification of violence in which he said: "When the looting begins, the shooting begins."
Earlier on Thursday, Facebook removed ads posted by the Trump campaign claiming that they violated its anti-hate policy. The ads, which attacked the left-wing group Antifa, showed a symbol that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said was "virtually identical to the one used by the Nazi regime to classify political prisoners in concentration camps."
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The Trump campaign defended itself by claiming that the symbol was used by Antifa activists.
ADL said some Antifa activists have used the symbol, but it is not particularly common.
