“On his first visit to Florida as a presidential nominee on Tuesday, Joe Biden whipped out his cellphone to play ‘Despacito,’ as a tribute to its singer, Luis Fonsi, who introduced the former vice president at the event. The moment exploded on social media, inspiring jokes, memes and a surprise resurgence of the 2017 single onto Twitter’s trending topics. Early on Wednesday morning, President Trump joined the fray — but in the video he tweeted, it wasn’t ‘Despacito’ playing from Biden’s phone. It was N.W.A’s notorious 1988 single ‘Fuck tha Police.’ ‘What is this all about?’ Trump asked over the manipulated video” reports the Washington Post.
“Trump and his conservative allies have ramped up a campaign of online disinformation in recent weeks, as The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker reported, with the president in particular tweeting out numerous false claims and misleadingly labeled videos. Earlier on Tuesday, Trump shared a tweet baselessly accusing Biden of being a pedophile. Trump and allies ratchet up disinformation efforts in late stage of campaign Twitter has repeatedly labeled videos shared by Trump and his campaign as ‘manipulated,’ and in several cases removed media after the president retweeted it — including a video by a Texas doctor named Stella Immanuel claiming without evidence that masks aren’t effective in halting the transmission of the novel coronavirus.”