By Blake Wolf, OAN Staff
Monday, July 29, 2024 5:23 PM
Meta Platforms, the tech giant that owns Facebook and Instagram, has admitted that it “mistakenly” censored a historic photo of a bloodied Donald Trump raising his fist after the July 13 assassination attempt.Number I was about to commit suicide.
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A Facebook post featuring the historic photo was initially flagged as “misinformation” because the image had been altered. A statement on the site that flagged the post read, “Independent fact-checkers have reviewed similar photos and noted that they have been altered in a misleading way.”
Meta spokesman Dani Lever released a statement on Monday claiming that the controversial fact-check was indeed an “incorrect.”
She further said their system had flagged a doctored version of a photo of a Secret Service agent smiling, but accidentally flagged the real photo as well because the two images were similar.
“This was a mistake. This fact check was initially applied to a photo that was doctored to show Secret Service agents smiling, but in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to real photos. This has been corrected and we apologize for the mistake,” Lever wrote on Twitter.
However, many popular X accounts did not believe Lever’s explanation, with one user writing: “How can you ever get bored of being a lying shill?”
“Yeah, no one will believe you,” another user said.
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