Twitter took the rare step of pinning a “manipulated media” warning to a tweet from President Donald Trump, who reposted an old, remixed viral video of two toddlers, one who is black and one who is white, greeting each other with a hug on a New York City sidewalk.
In the video shared by Trump, the portion of the video where the two toddlers are playfully chasing each other is displayed first, with the addition of suspenseful music and two CNN chyron banners that suggests one of the children is probably “racist” and a Trump supporter. The video then pivots to “what actually happened,” showing the two toddlers running up to each other hugging, alongside a version of the song “[They Long To Be] Close To You,” and ends on a message to not trust “Fake News.”
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