Twitter Removes Trump Campaign's Tribute to George Floyd, Citing Copyright Claim
Twitter’s claim
A Twitter spokesperson told PJ Media that a copyright holder filed a claim under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that affects the Trump campaign’s tweet. Twitter sent PJ Media a link to the complaint in the Lumen database, a third-party research group Twitter uses to check copyright claims. The complaint traces back to the law office of Sam Koolaq, a Harvard Law graduate based in Los Angeles. He has only one tweet, dating back to 2016.
Twitter’s removal of the video comes after the social media platform added an extremely biased “fact-check” to Trump’s tweet warning about vote-by-mail schemes, and after it claimed another of Trump’s tweets violated its policies by “glorifying violence.”
“This incident is yet another reminder that Twitter is making up the rules as they go along,” Trump campaign spokesman Andrew Clark told The Hill. “From the dubious removal of the hilarious Nickelback video to capricious fact checks and manipulated media labels to questionable claims of copyright, Twitter has repeatedly failed to explain why their rules seem to only apply to the Trump campaign but not to others. Censoring out the president’s important message of unity around the George Floyd protests is an unfortunate escalation of this double standard.”
Twitter’s claim
A Twitter spokesperson told PJ Media that a copyright holder filed a claim under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that affects the Trump campaign’s tweet. Twitter sent PJ Media a link to the complaint in the Lumen database, a third-party research group Twitter uses to check copyright claims. The complaint traces back to the law office of Sam Koolaq, a Harvard Law graduate based in Los Angeles. He has only one tweet, dating back to 2016.
Twitter’s removal of the video comes after the social media platform added an extremely biased “fact-check” to Trump’s tweet warning about vote-by-mail schemes, and after it claimed another of Trump’s tweets violated its policies by “glorifying violence.”
“This incident is yet another reminder that Twitter is making up the rules as they go along,” Trump campaign spokesman Andrew Clark told The Hill. “From the dubious removal of the hilarious Nickelback video to capricious fact checks and manipulated media labels to questionable claims of copyright, Twitter has repeatedly failed to explain why their rules seem to only apply to the Trump campaign but not to others. Censoring out the president’s important message of unity around the George Floyd protests is an unfortunate escalation of this double standard.”
