This might be one of the more recent instances of a social internet site’s deliberate campaign to place a higher value on Democrats over Republicans. Facebook is correct in recognizing that it is an error to label the memorable image of a bloody Trump holding his elbow in rebellion following the attempted death as “misinformation.”
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” Yes, this was an problem”, Dani Lever of Meta wrote on X. According to the New York Post, Charlie Kirk remarked that Facebook did not permit users to share the picture in her post.
” Our techniques incorrectly applied this reality check to the real pictures, and in some cases it was done on a doctored photo with the secret service agents smiling,” the statement continues. We’re sorry for the mistake, but this has been fixed.
Well, this was an problem. Our systems may have applied this fact test to the fake photo, but it was first applied to a fake photo with the secret service agents smiling. We’re sorry for the error, but this has been corrected.
— Dani Lever ( @Dani_Lever ) July 29, 2024
The Democratic presidential candidate’s initial flagged as “misinformation” by a Twitter user with the control” End Wokeness” when he showed him kicking his fist in the air while blood stream down his face.
It’s not the first day Trump has been dissed by Facebook.
When asked for information about the horrible event, Meta AI, its AI robot, Meta AI, responded that the attempted assassination was “fictional.”
X sympathizers for Trump posted photos of Meta AI responses to questions about the attempted execution.
In one example, the app got the time of the event bad. In another, it answered the question properly, but gave a brief email that, when juxtaposed with a quick about Vice President Kamala Harris ‘ political battle, made it seem as if the technology giant was biased in favor of Democrats.
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” We know people have been seeing inadequate, uneven, or out of date information on this topic. A Meta director told The Post that” we’re in the process of implementing a resolve to provide more accurate responses for questions,” and that it’s possible people will continue to discover false actions in the interim.
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Meanwhile, Google is in hot water after some users noted the “autocomplete” function in its searches curiously does n’t generate any results for the Trump assassination.  ,
There was no “manual actions taken on these predictions,” according to a Google spokesman who spoke to The Post. The issue is that some Autocomplete predictions are “associated with political murder,” so its systems have “protections” against them.
” We’re making changes to keep our systems up-to-date,” said the company. Autocomplete is only a tool to save time for users, and they can also search for something. People turned to Google for high-quality data after this sad work, and we connected them with useful results, the director said.
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Does anyone else find it odd that, almost always, when a social media platform receives a red flag with its vote in favor of Democrats, the reply is” we’re working on it”?
