Following through with its promises to deliver on media manipulation, Twitter, for the first time, tagged a recent post by President Trump as manipulated. Twitter’s policies on manipulated media went into effect on March 5th and this instance is believed to be the first time the company has applied the “manipulated media” tag (see screenshot in article below). Time will tell how effective this policy will be and its effect, if any, on the President’s future behaviour. Important to note however, is that Twitter has indicated repeat offenders will be banned from the platform. It will be very interesting to see how Twitter follows through on this commitment. Given his track record for re-tweeting doctored media, perhaps this policy may mark the end of Donald Trump’s use (and mis-use) of his favourite social media platform.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/8/21170714/twitter-manipulated-media-biden-video-retweeted-trump