Former President Trump on Tuesday criticized Facebook and Google for restricting content related to the assassination attempt on him.
“Facebook has admitted that they mistakenly censored Trump’s ‘assassination attempt photo’ after it was discovered. So has Google,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “They made it virtually impossible to find any photos or anything related to this heinous act.”
“Both have faced significant backlash over alleged censorship,” he continued. “Another attempt to rig the election has begun!!! We are going after Meta and Google. Let them know we know what they’re up to and we will be much tougher this time.”
Facebook’s parent company Meta said on Monday that it had mistakenly applied a fact check to a photo of President Trump raising his fist after the assassination attempt.
“This was a mistake,” Meta spokesperson Dani Lebar wrote to X. “This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo of a Secret Service agent smiling, but in some cases our systems incorrectly applied the fact check to real photos. This has been corrected and we apologize for the mistake.”
President Trump’s relationship with Facebook and its parent company Meta has been strained since he was banned from the platform following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
His account will be reinstated in January 2023, and Meta said earlier this month it was removing additional guardrails that remained on Trump’s account ahead of the November election.
Google has also come under fire recently after it reportedly failed to autofill search options related to the assassination attempt of a former president. Newsweek.
The tech giant told Newsweek that it was “working on improving it,” stressing that autocomplete is “just a tool to save people time, so they can search for what they want.”
