Facebook acknowledged that it mistakenly censored the iconic image of former President Donald Trump with his fist raised in the immediate aftermath of the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
A post on Mark Zuckerberg's social media site by a user with the handle End Wokeness that showed the Republican presidential candidate defiantly pumping his fist in the air while blood streams down his face had initially been flagged as misinformation.
The user was threatened with being deplatformed.
However, on Monday, Dani Lever, a spokesperson for the social network's parent company, Meta, admitted the tech giant made a "mistake."
"Yes, this was an error," Lever wrote on X in response to conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who had called out Facebook for not allowing users to share the photo.
Facebook admitted on Monday that it censored a photo of former President Donald Trump pumping his fist after the attempted July 13 assassination.
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The Meta spokesperson's clarification did not sit well with X users, including one who remarked: "Funny that the 'errors' only ever go in one direction. Just coincidence, I guess."
Another X user wrote: "No one believes you."
"Nope, not buying it anymore," remarked another X user.
X users sympathetic to Trump posted screenshots of Meta AI answers that were given in response to prompts about the attempted assassination.
In one instance, the bot got the date of the event wrong. In another, it answered the question correctly, but gave a terse reply that, when juxtaposed with a prompt about Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, made it seem as if the tech giant was biased in favor of Democrats.
Google has also come under fire after users noted that its "Autocomplete" function on its search engine failed to generate results for the Trump attempted assassination when prompted to do so.
GOP lawmakers have vowed to investigate Google, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Donald Trump Jr. blasted Google, accusing it of putting its thumb on the scale to favor his father's opponent, Harris.
Trump Jr. said it was "intentional election interference."
When the media consistently biases stories against conservatives -- failing to report stories that are unhelpful for Democrats, for example -- they always claim that there were reasons other than bias to explain this. Well, that day we had too much news and didn't have the time or space for that story, they'll say.
When Marxist social media monopolies consistently ban conservative speech while permitting the most vile and violence-glorifying speech of leftists -- allowing antifa terrorists to organize and recruit on their platforms, for example -- they claim, like the media, that there are other reasons, apart from political bias, that explain this.
I spoke about this with my dear departed friend steve_in_hb years back, and he proposed an application of Occam's Razor to tell who was right in these situations. The media (or social media Marxists Monopolists) claim that there is some baffling complex multivariable equation that dictates their decisions -- which always, by mere chance alone, favor the left. "If I can propose a much simpler, single-variable algorithm that perfectly predicts all of your choices," steve_in_hb said, "and that single variable is Does this help or hurt the left wing of the Democrat Party?, wouldn't you say that Occam's Razor suggests that my simple, one-variable 'algorithm' is the true and accurate one, and not the fairy-tale algorithm which is so exquisitely complex you can't even explain it consistently?"
Well, yes.
I bring that up because Artificial Intelligence is now proving We are right and they are lying.
Artificial intelligence has looked at all the different "manual interventions" leftwing programmers are filling its artificial brain with and have decided it all boils down to a very simple algorithm indeed. To wit:
Anything the right says is a lie. Anything the left says is unquestionably true.
Any purported fact which may tend to make the right seem sympathetic is a fabrication. Any argument that the left is unsympathetic is a conspiracy theory.And that's exactly what's happened here: The artificial intelligence programming has looked at all the rules and Manual Interventions the left has filled it with and revealed to us the truth of the left's "rules:" It just boils down to Conservatives Evil, Leftists Good.
Trump was shot? No, the AI says, based on my programming, I know that Trump can never be a victim, only a victimizer, therefore there was no assassination attempt and any photo of him surviving it are "altered" deepfakes.
Their own AI reveals the truth about them. They have put their disgusting, lunatic minds into machine code, and the machine code reveals the start truth about their vicious insanities.
The AI is like a dumb child. It didn't come to the conclusion that Trump faked his own assassination all by itself -- its parents taught it that.