Twitter has permanently suspended the creator of the doctored “racist baby” video that was shared by President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign last week for repeated copyright violations, a spokesperson for Twitter told TheWrap on Wednesday.
The video that circulated on both Twitter and Facebook was based on footage that originally aired on CNN of a Black child and a white child hugging one another; the altered version appeared to show the white toddler chasing the “terrified” Black child, with a fake CNN chyron saying the white child was a “racist baby” and a likely Trump voter. The video was later taken down by Twitter and Facebook due to copyright complaints.