This archive report was first published on 5 June 2020.
Published on June 5, 2020, Twitter Inc has disabled a U.S. President Donald Trump campaign video tribute to George Floyd, citing a copyright complaint.
The three-minute 45-second video, uploaded on Trump's YouTube channel, featured photos and videos of protest marches and instances of violence in the aftermath of Floyd's death.
Twitter said the video on the president's campaign account was affected by its copyright policy, stating, 'We respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by a copyright owner or their authorized representatives.'
The video, which is still on YouTube, had garnered more than 60,000 views and 13,000 likes before being removed from Twitter.
Twitter has been under fierce scrutiny from the Trump administration since it fact-checked Trump's tweets about unsubstantiated claims of mail-in voting fraud and labeled a Trump tweet about protests in Minneapolis as 'glorifying violence.'
