Former President Donald Trump took aim at Facebook and Google this week, criticizing them for censoring images related to an assassination attempt against him.
In a post on TruthSocial, Trump stated, “Facebook has admitted it wrongfully censored the photo of my attempted assassination. Google did the same thing. They made it almost impossible to locate any information about this egregious event.”
He added, “Both are facing MAJOR OUTCRY OVER CENSORSHIP. Here we go again with another attempt at RIGGING THE ELECTION!!! LET’S HOLD META AND GOOGLE ACCOUNTABLE. WE SEE THROUGH THEIR GAMES, AND THIS TIME WE’RE NOT BACKING DOWN. MAGA2024!”
Recently, social media buzzed with claims that Facebook, along with its parent company Meta, was suppressing the photo of Trump shortly after he was shot at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
User @ZackStrength blasted the platforms, saying, “Facebook and Instagram are censoring a historic photo of Donald Trump with a made-up claim. I won’t allow them to erase this image from the public view,” sharing screenshots as proof.
In response, Dani Lever, a Facebook spokesperson, called the censorship a “mistake.” She explained, “This was a mistake. Initially, a fact check was mistakenly applied to a doctored image with smiling Secret Service agents, and our systems incorrectly tagged the real photo. We’ve now rectified this and apologize for the error,” as noted in her post on X.
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Besides Facebook, users also noted that Google’s search function wasn’t providing results for the assassination attempt in its autocomplete suggestions.
Google’s spokesperson claimed that no “manual action” has been taken regarding the autocomplete predictions linked to Trump’s assassination attempt.