Facebook and Twitter have taken down a post from President Donald Trump featuring an altered video of two toddlers, one day after Twitter labeled the same video as having been "manipulated."

The takedowns could inflame tension between Trump and Silicon Valley, weeks after the president issued an executive order aimed at cracking down on social media companies' online liability protections. Meanwhile, the online companies are facing increasing pressure to vet or take down deceptive or inflammatory posts from Trump - an issue that prompted The North Face to announce earlier Friday that it's pulling its advertising from Facebook.

The video, in which one toddler chases another, features bogus CNN chyrons that say: "Terrified todler [sic] runs from racist baby" and that "racist baby probably a Trump voter." The post modified earlier reporting from CNN featuring the children.

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