Twitter labels ‘racist baby’ video shared by Trump as ‘manipulated media’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Twitter has added a warning label onto a video tweet shared by Donald Trump’s account&comma; informing users it contained manipulated media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The clip is edited to look like it appeared on a CNN broadcast&comma; showing a black toddler running away from a white child&comma; with a fake CNN breaking news caption reading&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Terrified todler &lpar;sic&rpar; runs from racist baby&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It then claims to reveal &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;what actually happened”&comma; showing the original version of events where the pair are playing – the way CNN had reported it – before accusing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fake news” of being the root cause of problems in America&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Underneath the US president’s tweet&comma; the social network added a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;manipulated media” label&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"und" dir&equals;"ltr"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;vnRpk0zl5y">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;vnRpk0zl5y<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Donald J&period; Trump &lpar;&commat;realDonaldTrump&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;realDonaldTrump&sol;status&sol;1273770669214490626&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">June 19&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Clicking on the warning&comma; users are told&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In September 2019&comma; CNN reported on a viral video about a friendship between two toddlers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;On Thursday&comma; the president shared a version of the video which many journalists confirmed was edited and doctored with a fake CNN chyron&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The move comes amid heightened racial tensions in the US following the death of George Floyd while in police custody&comma; which has driven the Black Lives Matter movement across the globe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Twitter has toughened its stance against misleading content posted by Mr Trump of late&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In May&comma; the firm placed fact-checking labels on two tweets from the president’s personal account which made claims about fraud in US postal voting&comma; as well as hiding a post about protests in the city of Minneapolis after Mr Floyd’s death&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump responded by signing an executive order to restrict legal protections allowing social media sites to remove content they deem inappropriate&comma; a power he described as being akin to censorship&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>CNN’s communications team replied to the president’s latest tweet&comma; saying&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;CNN did cover this story – exactly as it happened&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Just as we reported your positions on race &lpar;and poll numbers&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’ll continue working with facts rather than tweeting fake videos that exploit innocent children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We invite you to do the same&period; Be better&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Facebook has not taken any action on the same video shared by Mr Trump’s account on their platform&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire by some staff for their stance on the matter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; 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