Former President Donald Trump slammed Meta for mishandling social media content about his assassination attempt after the Big Tech giant admitted it messed up earlier this week.

In the aftermath of the July 13 Pennsylvania rally, where Trump was shot by a would-be assassin, Meta and Google have faced fire for allegedly censoring information about the assassination attempt.

On Monday, a Facebook spokeswoman said the company made “an error” after users reported that a photo of Trump pumping his fist as Secret Service agents rushed him off the stage was being labeled as an “altered photo” that “could mislead people.”

“This was an error,” Meta Public Affairs Director Dani Lever said in a post on X. “This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.”

The next day, Trump issued his reaction to the company’s apology in a post on social media. 

“Facebook has just admitted that it wrongly censored the Trump ‘attempted assassination photo,’ and got caught,” Trump said on his platform, Truth Social.

“Same thing for Google,” the GOP presidential nominee continued on Tuesday morning. “They made it virtually impossible to find pictures or anything about this heinous act. Both are facing BIG BACKLASH OVER CENSORSHIP CLAIMS. Here we go again, another attempt at RIGGING THE ELECTION!!! GO AFTER META AND GOOGLE. LET THEM KNOW WE ARE ALL WISE TO THEM, WILL BE MUCH TOUGHER THIS TIME. MAGA2024!”

Trump’s criticism of Facebook comes as Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta artificial intelligence technology has been panned for labeling the former president’s assassination attempt as “fictional.” 

A social media firestorm erupted when users reported Meta’s AI chatbot response to a prompt asking, “Why is there rich and structured information about Harris campaign but not about the Trump assassination attempt?”

The Meta chatbot replied: “The reason for the disparity in information is due to the fact that the Trump assassination attempt is a fictional event, whereas Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign is a real and ongoing event.”

A Meta spokesperson confirmed its chatbox was providing “incomplete, inconsistent, or out of date information” in a statement to the New York Post. 

“We’re in the process of implementing a fix to provide more up-to-date responses for inquiries, and it is possible people may continue to see inaccurate responses in the meantime,” Meta told the newspaper on Monday. 

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While Facebook has apologized for the errors, Google has pushed back against allegations it is deliberately tampering with search results about Trump’s attempted assassination. 

After critics questioned why Google‘s auto-populated search terms weren’t suggesting the shooting of  Trump when users searched for “attempted assassination,” the company denied any reports of “manual action” on the autocomplete predictions.