Twitter vs Trump, new act: images and copyright

"Media not displayed", this is the message that appears in a post shared by Trump on Twitter in recent days. Via the published image, in its place a cold JPEG with a gray background that explains: "The image has been removed in response to a report by the copyright holder."

Trump publishes a photo, Twitter removes it

The copyright holder is the New York Times and the shot in question is by Damon Winter, photographer who in 2009 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the work on the election campaign of Barack Obama. The image that portrays Trump was included by the newspaper in a 2015 article on the tycoon race in the White House. The details of the complaint can be consulted in the Lumen database which is responsible for collecting this type of report by requesting the removal of content put online in an unauthorized way.

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- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2020



In recent weeks Twitter and the US President have come to a knife: the social network has first assigned to some Trump posts a label for fact checking, then he hid his intervention calling it offensive.

Trump's reaction was far from measured: he immediately threatened the closure of all platforms, indiscriminately, to then take on less violent tones. His staff has also considered the possibility of transferring the election campaign to Parler, a lesser-known online beach, according to Wikipedia which is particularly permissive towards conspiracy theorists and exponents of the far right.

Source: Axios