Unic Press UK: A hashtag #CNNBlackmail is trending on Twitter after Cable News Network, CNN threatened to expose the true identity of the being behind a meme in which the U.S. president Donald Trump overpowered a man with CNN’s logo for a head. Trump had shared the meme in a tweet on Sunday, the 2nd July 2017.
#FraudNewsCNN #FNN pic.twitter.com/WYUnHjjUjg
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017
CNN discovered the person who made the meme, saying that the meme maker will not be named “because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology… CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”
The reactions against the CNN’s approach to a meme many had viewed as a mere humor has been swift. The media giant is now being accused of threatening/blackmailing the maker of the wrestling meme.
.@CNN pushes propaganda for 1/2 a year, Trump calls them out, they threaten to doxx a 15 year old, now #CNNBlackmail is trending. Happy 4th! pic.twitter.com/vipoYxDjXE
— Lucian B. Wintrich (@lucianwintrich) July 5, 2017
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks weighed in, accusing CNN of blackmailing a private citizen, suggesting the the media giant had broken the law.
A multi-billion dollar TV network blackmailing a private citizen into not making funny videos about it is not journalism, CNN. #CNNBlackmail
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) July 5, 2017
CNN also appears to have committed a federal felony violation of 18 U.S. Code § 241 in relation to the 1st Amendment https://t.co/Ij06te1Bcr pic.twitter.com/NbeYUSRuHN
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) July 5, 2017
ISIS burns 12 people alive, NK launches ICBM, NYPD cop murdered…yet CNN focuses on how they chased down a meme-maker 🙄#CNNBlackmail
— kathyc (@kcmariner) July 5, 2017
Everyone should be using the #CNNBlackMail hashtag. We must expose the crime they have committed against an American child!
— Democrats for Trump (@YoungDems4Trump) July 5, 2017
