Trump campaign taunts Twitter with manipulated audio of Biden calling virus a 'hoax'

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Trump campaign taunts Twitter with manipulated audio of Biden calling virus a 'hoax'


https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/490755-trump-campaign-taunts-twitter-with-manipulated-audio-of-biden-calling-virus



By Jonathan Easley - 04/02/20 08:14 AM EDT

President Trump’s reelection campaign tweeted out manipulated audio to make it sound like former Vice President Joe Biden called the coronavirus a “hoax” in an effort to draw attention to what it views as Twitter’s double standard in policing political speech.

The new Trump campaign video is styled after an ad released by the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA, which featured misleading audio of Trump describing the coronavirus as a “hoax.”

The president's campaign has flagged multiple Democratic videos for Twitter in which he is heard calling the coronavirus a "hoax," arguing that the content runs afoul of the social media giant’s manipulated media guidelines. Twitter has declined to sanction the Democratic ads.

In the Trump campaign ad released Thursday, Biden can be heard saying: “The coronavirus is a hoax.”

Biden never called the coronavirus a hoax. The audio is deceptively spliced together from two different times that Biden spoke...........................

[SheltieLover]

1. Joe needs to order cease & desist!

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

K&R

[jberryhill]

3. That's not actually a thing

I realize people hear it a lot and think "oooh, legal term".

But sending someone a letter telling them to knock it off has all the legal significance of a birthday card.

[flibbitygiblets]

6. That's interesting, my lawyer just sent a cease and desist letter to a former employee

telling them to stop using company material for personal reasons. That's the term the lawyer used, although I don't recall if that actual language was used.

The letter was sent as a notification that the employee's activities have been discovered, asking them to stop doing what they're doing, and that we'll be following up with forensic experts to prove that they've stolen company assets and are using them illegally.

[jberryhill]

7. Yeah, it's just a letter

You can send them a birthday card too.

Neither political campaign is going to give two shits about threat letters from the other one. It may go over big when a lawyer threatens some dumb schmuck about something, but the Biden campaign sending the Trump campaign a letter saying "stop doing that" will impress approximately no one.

[Iliyah]

4. Sue them!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Mafia technique: two wrongs make a right. . . . nt

[mikalcharles]

5. Trump clearly called it a hoax

I don't know why the media lets them get away with this shit. I don't care if he called it a democratic hoax. Democratic is the adjective, hoax is the noun. He was claiming the democrats were overpaying the seriousness of the virus, which wasn't in his mind a problem. Its not like he was saying the virus didn't exist. We get that. Cretins.

[SergeStorms]

8. It's past time to give Trump....

a little "rest period" from Twitter. Either they censure Trump for this shit or stand the chance of being another Facebook the government should look into regulating.

[ancianita]

10. +100

[ancianita]

9. It's time for Twitter to give no more platform to Bloody Donnie and his Parscale jackals.

What's the worst he could do to Twitter. Sue them?