Twitter on Wednesday removed an image tweeted by President Donald Trump after the social media network received a copyright complaint from a famed magazine.
The original tweet by Trump issued 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 Trump’s picture in the background.
The background picture was taken by the magazine’s. 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 Twitter 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.
Twitter removed the image after it received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint, which owns the rights to the photo, according to a notice posted.
The database collects and analyses legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials.
Twitter began challenging Trump’s tweets in May and has repeatedly clashed with him since then.
The president has threatened to change laws on social media after Twitter labeled one of his tweets about postal voting inaccurate and hid a tweet about looting, which Twitter said fomented violence.