Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said President Trump’s tweet about why the company removed one of his campaign videos was “not true.”
The Friday night exchange came after Trump became angry that Twitter removed a campaign video that features spliced photos and videos from the fallout of George Floyd’s death while a speech by Trump on the topic is heard. Dorsey said that the social media giant removed it because of copyright issues.
“Not true and not illegal. This was pulled because we got a DMCA complaint from copyright holder,” Dorsey said in response to a tweet in which Trump claimed Twitter is “fighting hard for the Radical Left Democrats.”
Not true and not illegal.
This was pulled because we got a DMCA complaint from copyright holder. https://t.co/RAsaYng71a
— jack (@jack) June 6, 2020
A Twitter spokesperson told the Hill on Friday that it had received a complaint from at least one owner of a photo that was included in the Trump campaign’s video montage. A Facebook official said the same thing.
“We received a copyright complaint from the creator under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and have removed the post,” the Facebook official said. “Organizations that use original art shared on Instagram are expected to have the right to do so.”
Floyd’s death has prompted nationwide outrage and protests geared at calling attention to racial injustice and police brutality. Floyd died late last month after he was filmed face-down while a police officer dug his knee into Floyd’s neck. He fell unconscious and died in police custody.
