Twitter dumps Trump’s post over copyright claim
WASHINGTON: Twitter has taken down an image tweeted by US President Donald Trump from its platform, after receiving a copyright complaint from The New York Times.
The original tweet by Trump , posted on June 30, showed a meme that read “In reality they’re not after me, they’re after you, I’m just in the way,” with his picture in the background.
The background picture was taken by an New York Times photographer, to accompany a feature article on then presidential candidate Trump in September 2015.
Twitter now displays the message “This image has been removed in response to a report from the copyright holder” in place of the tweet.
The move by the social media site is the latest instance of content posted by Trump being flagged or removed, due to what Twitter says are copyright complaints, violation of its policy on threatening violence, among others reasons.
Twitter removed the image after it received a Digital Millennium
Copyright Act complaint from NYT, which owns the rights to the photo, according to a notice posted on the Lumen Database.
JUDGE LIFTS BAN ON BOOK BY TRUMP’S NIECE
An appeals court judge in New York has lifted a temporary ban on the publication of a potentially explosive “tell-all” book by Trump’s niece, court documents showed.
The ruling issued on Wednesday allows publisher Simon & Schuster to print and distribute the 240-page book by Mary Trump, who dubs the US president “the world’s most dangerous man.” It would be the latest bombshell memoir to dish dirt on the leader after former aide John Bolton’s book, which described Trump as corrupt and incompetent, was cleared for publication last week.
The president’s brother Robert Trump had asked for the restraining order, arguing that Mary was violating a non-disclosure agreement signed in 2001 after the settlement over the estate of Fred Trump - the father of Donald and Robert and of Mary’s father Fred Trump Jr.
RUSSIA BOUNTY: TRUMP DEFENDS HIS RESPONSE
Criticised for inaction, Trump and his top officials stepped up their defence of the administration’s response to intelligence assessments that Russia had offered bounties for killing US troops in Afghanistan. Trump’s national security adviser said he had prepared a list of retaliatory options if the intelligence proved true.
Trump, meanwhile, called the assessments a “hoax” and insisted anew he hadn’t been briefed on them because the intelligence didn’t rise to his level.