Former President Donald Trump said that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called him to apologize for a “mistake” after the social media company was accused of censoring a photo of the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Mehta’s Facebook account acknowledged that it had mistakenly flagged Trump’s iconic photo. Raise your fist It was circulated as “misinformation,” New York Post It was reported, but the problem was eventually resolved.
The photo of the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump was posted by the popular page “End Wokeness,” which later reportedly threatened to remove it from its platform because of the photo.
After conservative commentator Charlie Kirk wrote about the flag, Meta spokesperson Dani Lever responded: X And the “fact check” initially claimed to be a response to “an edited photo of a Secret Service agent smiling.”
President Trump spoke about the issue with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, and the social media network said:[ing] It did not release any information about what happened during the assassination attempt.
“Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called me a couple of times,” Trump said. “He called me after the event and said it was really wonderful, really brave, and then he actually announced that he wasn’t going to endorse a Democrat because he admired what I did that day.” Bartiromo.
“What I did may have been normal for me. It was normal behavior, but yesterday, the day before yesterday, I got a call from Mark Zuckerberg about the same thing and he actually apologized. He said they made a mistake and they’re correcting that mistake,” Trump continued.
The former president added, “Nobody from Google called me.”
Two weeks earlier, Zuckerberg had made headlines by saying that the image of the former president raising his fist after being shot in an assassination attempt was “one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Zach also Bloomberg “In a way, as an American, it’s hard not to empathize with that spirit and that fighting spirit. I think that’s why so many people like him.”
Following continued criticism of the platform over the photo, a Meta spokesperson provided some clarification on the issue in a response to The Post.
“We understand people have seen incomplete, contradictory or outdated information on this matter, and we are working on making corrections to provide more up-to-date answers to inquiries,” Mehta said.
But the platform added that people “may continue to see inaccurate answers in the meantime.”
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