Twitter labels Trump tweet as 'manipulated media'
Twitter has recently labeled a Trump tweet as 'manipulated media', thus starting their new policy of warning users if a tweet contains misinformation or tweets that appear to be deliberately misleading. The Trump tweet involved a video of Joe Biden that was edited in such a way that it seemed Biden was endorsing Trump.
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