Twitter has disabled a campaign-style video retweeted by Donald Trump, citing a copyright complaint.
The video, which included music by the Linkin Park group, disappeared from the president’s Twitter feed on Saturday night with the notification: “This media has been deactivated in response to a report by the copyright owner.”
Twitter removed the video, which Trump had retweeted from White House social media director Dan Scavino, after receiving a notice of Machine Shop Entertainment’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act, according to a notice posted on the Base. Data Collection that collects online removal requests materials
Dan Scavino
(@DanScavino)pic.twitter.com/ioVHmZnPzU
July 17, 2020
Machine Shop is a management company owned by rock band Linkin Park, according to their LinkedIn page.
“We respond to valid copyright complaints that were sent to us by a copyright owner or their authorized representatives,” a Twitter representative said in an email statement.
Later, the gang tweeted that they had issued a cease and desist order on the video and that they did not endorse Trump.
LINKIN PARK
(@linkinpark)Linkin Park neither endorsed nor endorses Trump, nor authorized his organization to use our music. A cease and desist has been issued.
July 19, 2020
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Twitter began challenging Trump’s tweets in May and has since repeatedly clashed with him. The social media company has repeatedly disabled or commented on the president’s tweets because of what he said were copyright claims or violations of a policy against threatening violence.
Twitter removed an image the president tweeted on June 30, which included a photo of Trump, due to a complaint by the New York Times, whose photographer had filmed the image.
The company also put a tweet from the president behind a warning tag in late May, saying it had violated its “glorification of violence” rules when it called for Minneapolis authorities to be tough in responding to protests by the George Floyd’s death.
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