Donald Trump's tweet disabled by Twitter over copyright complaint

WASHINGTON - Twitter Inc

disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump

retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint.

The video, which included music from the group Linkin Park,

disappeared from the president's Twitter feed late Saturday with

the notification: "This media has been disabled 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 it received

a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice from Machine Shop

Entertainment, according to a notice posted on the Lumen

Database which collects requests for removal of online

materials.

Machine Shop is a management company owned by the rock band

Linkin Park, according to its LinkedIn page.

"We respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by a

copyright owner or their authorized representatives," a Twitter

representative said in an email statement.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for

comment.

Twitter began challenging Trump's tweets in May and has

repeatedly clashed with him since. The social media company has

several times disabled or commented on tweets by the president

because of what it said were copyright complaints or violations

of a policy against threatening violence.

Twitter removed an image the president tweeted on June 30,

which included a picture of Trump, because of a complaint from

the New York Times, whose photographer had shot the image.

The company also put a tweet from the president behind a

warning label in late May, saying that he had violated its rules

against "glorifying violence" when he advocated that Minneapolis

authorities be tough in responding to protests over the death of

George Floyd.

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