The NRA is accusing Meta of “election interference” after the company cracked down on social media posts it deemed “false information” about Vice President Kamala Harris.
Gun rights groups have criticized Harris for her liberal gun control stance and sought to distance herself from her as the Democratic presidential nominee.
On September 18, the NRA shared a 2007 video of Harris, then San Francisco's prosecutor, speaking harshly about the city's approach to handguns.
“Just because you legally possess a gun in the sacred confines of your home under lock and key, we need to go into your home and make sure you are responsible. I don’t mean that,” Harris said at the time.
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The NRA has targeted Vice President Kamala Harris for her previous far-left gun control stances. (AP Photo/Jean J. Pasker)
The NRA captioned the video, “Kamala Harris seizes your legally owned guns,” and added, “Kamala Harris wants mass gun confiscation, and she's weaponizing the government.” We're going to break into your home and seize your legally owned guns,” he added.
But on September 24, the post was labeled as “false information” on both Instagram and Facebook.
“Independent fact-checkers say this information has no basis in fact. You can choose whether to see it,” the disclaimer tells Facebook users.
“Third-party fact checkers say the information in this post is false,” Instagram similarly told users.
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The NRA was labeled “disinformation” on Instagram and Facebook after it fact-checked an attack on Vice President Kamala Harris. (Screenshot/Instagram/Facebook)
Both disclaimers Link to article According to the editor's note, FactCheck.org is “one of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on social media.”
“During the 2020 presidential campaign, then-Senator Kamala Harris expressed support for a so-called assault weapons buyback program,” FactCheck.org begins. “As the current Democratic presidential candidate, Ms. Harris continues to support a ban on the purchase of certain semi-automatic weapons. However, her campaign no longer insists that she require Americans to surrender legally purchased weapons. He told us he didn't.”
The article went on to accuse the NRA of “misrepresenting” its current position on firearms, citing Harris' comment during the presidential debate that “we're not taking away anyone's guns.” .
Another NRA Instagram post that read, “All Kamala Harris knows about guns is she wants to ban them,” was similarly disclaimed for “lacking context.” I was visited. A video attached to the post showed Harris' combative exchanges about universal background checks during a sit-in with reporters from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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The NRA accused Meta of “election interference” after censoring social media posts critical of Harris. (Nicholas Cocobris/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Randy Kozuch, executive director of the NRA's lobbying arm, NRA-ILA (Institute for Legislative Action), told Fox News Digital that the NRA's ability to reach key audiences in the critical weeks remaining before the election is very important.” “Efforts by left-wing groups like FactCheck.org to abuse meta rules to suppress important messages from groups like the NRA amount to their own information manipulation and come uncomfortably close to election interference,” he said. It will be,” he pointed out.
“Given Meta’s admission that it has censored certain views, we hope that Meta will not be allowed to operate its platform again. “We have a right to understand what's really at stake in this election,” Kozucci added on Fox News Digital.
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Meta did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
