This, of course, didn’t stop Scavino uploading the cropped footage to his 700,000 followers, nor did it stop President Donald Trump from retweeting it to his 73.4 million. 

Twitter marked Scavino’s tweet as manipulated media almost a day after it was posted, by which time it had already accumulated thousands of retweets and millions of views. Better late than never, but it would have been better early than late.

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The warning on Scavino’s tweet doesn’t show up all the time, either. The Washington Post reported that it doesn’t appear when users search for the tweet, which Mashable confirmed. Fortunately, Twitter told the Post it is working on a fix.