• Fake News

  Social Media & National Policy

  Posted by Tuesday on June 27, 2020 at 8:57 pm

  https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/880377872/facebook-removes-trump-political-ads-with-nazi-symbol-campaign-calls-it-an-emoji

  LA Times
  https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-19/facebook-trump-ad-twitter-red-triangle
  Whether by intention or not, the design lent support to the effort by Democrats to paint Trump as a white supremacist. “For the Trump campaign to use a symbol — one which is practically identical to that used by the Nazi regime to classify political prisoners in concentration camps — to attack his opponents is offensive and deeply troubling,” Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement to the Associated Press.

  And then Twitter flagged one of the president’s tweets as “manipulated media” because it presented video including inflammatory footage purporting to be from CNN. The video — which argues that “fake news” is the problem, not racism in America — was from a parody account, but nothing in the video accurately labels it as such. In other words, it was exactly the sort of fakery Trump accuses CNN of doing, except his campaign really did it. (Twitter removed Trump’s tweet Friday after the owner of the original, undoctored video accused Trump of copyright infringement.)

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