The video included music by the group Linkin Park.
Twitter Inc. has disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint.
The video, which included music by the group Linkin Park, disappeared from the president’s Twitter feed on Saturday with the notification: “This media has been disabled in response to a report from the copyright owner.”
Twitter deleted the video Trump had retweeted from White House social media director Dan Scavino after receiving notice of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from Machine Shop Entertainment, according to a notice posted on the Lumen database that collects online document removal requests.
Machine Shop is a management company belonging to the rock group Linkin Park, according to its LinkedIn page.
“We respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by a copyright owner or their authorized representatives,” said a Twitter representative in an email release.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Twitter started to challenge Trump’s tweets in May and has clashed with him several times since. The social media company has repeatedly disabled or commented on the president’s tweets because of what he called complaints of copyright infringement or violations of a policy against threats of violence.
Twitter deleted an image that the president tweeted on June 30, which included a photo of Trump, due to a complaint from the New York Times, whose photographer took the photo.
The company also posted a president’s tweet behind a warning label in late May, saying it had violated its rules against “glorifying violence” when it pleaded for the Minneapolis authorities to be tough in responding to protests against the death of George Floyd.
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