Friday, June 19, 2020

Jukin Media Ends Up In Middle Of Political Battle

Another, Southern California technology company has ended up in the middle of increasingly divided U.S. politics, after Culver City-based Jukin Media issued a takedown request for a misleading, manipulated video that has been retweeted by Donald Trump. According to Jukin, it submitted a takedown request to Twitter for the misleading edit of an endearing viral video, which originally showed two children--one black, another white--hugging. The crudely manipulated version tweeted by Trump --with the manufactured headline "terrified todler runs from racist baby" had been edited to show the black child running away from the white child with a CNN banner, before showing the original video. Another Southern California company, Venice, California-based Snap said earlier this month it will no longer promote Trump's accounts due to his tweets--explaining it won't promote "voices who incite racial violence and injustice"; and Crowdstrike, a developer of cybersecurity software, has been a target of a conspiracy theory related to investigations into Uktraine and the presidential impeachment.