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Trump Campaign To Twitter: Label Democrats’ Ads That Twist Trump’s Words. Twitter: Nope.

Hank Berrien
Trump Campaign To Twitter: Label Democrats’ Ads That Twist Trump’s Words. Twitter: Nope.
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On Thursday, Twitter rebuffed a request from the Trump campaign to affix a “manipulated media” warning tag on a video reportedly pushed by Democrats, as The Hill reported, that had been deceptively edited so President Trump appeared to refer to the coronavirus as a “hoax.”

The Hill reported, “At issue is a new video that has been viewed millions of times featuring audio of Trump saying: ‘The coronavirus, this is their new hoax.’” The Hill noted that The Washington Post’s fact checkers gave Four Pinocchios to an ad former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign used with the same audio.

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