The popular pro-Trump meme maker known as “Carpe Donktum” had his Twitter account briefly suspended Monday under circumstances he says are likely tied to his support for Project Veritas.
A February 2018 post that violates copyright laws was given as the rationale for the ban, although Carpe Donktum, whose real name is Logan Cook, told followers that his account went black roughly five minutes after sharing a Veritas media-bias sting video about CNN and its leadership’s bias against President Trump.
“We are back,” Mr. Cook said via a Periscope stream once his account was reactivated.” I don’t know how permanent this will be. Obviously, I’ve known for a long time that this can happen at any time and for any reason. I guess from now on we’ll watch and see what happens.”
He suggested that his 55,000 readers “go over to Project Veritas. Follow that. Make sure you’re tweeting it out. Make sure CNN sees it. They are scared to death of what Veritas has.”
Mr. Cook said that his alleged infringement of copyright rules came on a parody of a Super Bowl video in which he added roughly five seconds of music not even identified by YouTube’s copyright algorithm.
He added that he has always complied with Twitter’s terms of service by not reposting anything flagged as a possible copyright violation.
“The best thing we can all do is [to share] all the Veritas stuff,” he added. “Make sure we hit CNN really, really, really, really hard. Expose CNN.”
“Thank you for making this the shortest permanent suspension in twitter history,” he added on Twitter. “Special Thanks to @HumanEvents @JackPosobiec @ali @willchamberlain @JamesOKeefeII and @robbystarbuck. And most importantly all of YOU, my follow count is messed up but hopefully that gets fixed too.”
The Veritas video in question, one of many to be released by the conservative organization started by James O’Keefe, includes hidden-camera footage of CNN Media Coordinator Christian Sierra talking about the network’s gun control coverage.
Mr. Sierra says in the footage that CNN would cover a story about a white victim in an affluent neighborhood, but that “nobody cares” about individuals shot in Newark, New Jersey.
This is @CNN…
— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) October 14, 2019
CNN media coordinator says nobody cares about gang violence that disproportionately affects minorities in Chicago… “Unless it happens on Cory Booker’s block.”
This is the most honest CNN has ever been#ExposeCNN pic.twitter.com/Vkw20AFROL
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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