Donald Trump claims in a Fox News clip that Mark Zuckerberg, the president’s adviser to censorship, and election meddler, called him to apologize for Meta’s new embarrassing repression of photos and information regarding Trump’s assassination attempt, which went viral on X.
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Trump made his comments on Fox News about Mark Zuckerberg, who is the CEO of Meta, which owns Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Fibers. Zuckerberg” called me a few times”, Trump told Maria Bartiromo, claiming the Big Tech CEO called Trump “very courageous” and apologized for Meta’s shocking censorship about the death effort. In fact, Trump made the startling claim that Zuckerberg said he would n’t support a Democrat. Now if only we may count on Zuckerberg’s credibility.
In the clip, Trump said Zuckerberg” called me after the]assassination attempt], and he said’ that was really wonderful, it was very fearless,’ and … he really announced he’s not going to help a Democrat, because he the n’t, because he respected me for what I did that day”. Trump claimed this was” a standard answer”. He added,” But I was called by Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, or the day before, on this same subject, and he actually apologized, he said they made a mistake, etc., etc. and they’re correcting the error. Google, nothing called from Google”.
Trump claims that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, called him after the attempted execution and that he apologized for censoring images of him with his elbow raised: photograph. twitter.com/XaKBntAtWk— Daily Caller ( @DailyCaller ) August 2, 2024
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Google Search even made headlines for allegedly disclosing details about Trump’s assassination attempt.
For Our Guests:  , Trump Says Meta and Google Are Trying to Rig the Election. How’s What He Means.
Big Tech steps, according to Trump, are crucial because people watch programs like hers, or any other social present on the internet as well.  ,
” They take recordings of your show that you’re doing right now with me, and if I do a great job, they’re going to vote for me… Because it’s not just on Fox”, Trump emphasized.  ,
” You have a product”, he said, and therefore it matters that” Google has been very bad, they’ve been very irresponsible, and I have a feeling that Google is going to be close to shutdown because I do n’t think Congress is going to take it. I really do n’t think so. Google has to be careful” . ,
Trump, who was previously prohibited from using Meta systems in 2021, later said he believed Zuckerberg had been truthful with him and was never more meddling in elections as he once did.” Today, I will say this, I believe Mark Zuckerberg. He called me… he called me a bit. … And I think they’ve fixed it, and he’s not doing what he did four years ago with the$ 500 million, I do n’t believe”.
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According to submissions in MRC’s CensorTrack, Facebook and Instagram censored true and memorable images of the sought assassination, imposing filtering and adding names claiming” Modified photo/video”. MRC Free Speech America reported back , in April that Facebook had interfered no fewer than 39 times in elections since 2008 ( disclosure: I contribute to MRC ). Dani Lever, a spokesperson for Meta, later claimed that the warning and filter were actually applied to improved photos but were also “incorrectly” applied to actual photos.  ,
As I discovered when I asked the AI chatbot on July 16 to confirm that an assassination attempt had been made on Trump days after the shooting, Meta AI was denying the truth in another ( possibly intentional ) flub. The New York Post reported similar findings on July 29, when Meta AI claimed,” There was no true assassination attempt on Donald Trump” and labeled the celebration “fictional” . ,
Since then, a Meta director has acknowledged that the artificial knowledge had been updated incorrectly. Although Meta claimed this was a mistake by failing to have the most recent information on the assassination attempt, the Post reported that MetaAI was much more quick to provide the most recent information on VP Kamala Harris ‘ plan.
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In the above clip, Trump was referring to the infamous$ 400 million + of” Zuckerbucks” that Zuckerberg lavished on counties for election activities, both to fund and to influence elections. Zuckerberg is providing this kind of funding this election cycle, according to the Washington Post, but on a much smaller scale, totaling “less than 1 % of what]was ] spent in 2020.” As I previously mentioned, it’s unclear whether Zuckerberg and his own Meta executives have sincere repentance from their long years of meddling in elections, particularly when it comes to influencing Trump, or if they are simply covering up their losses in the event that Trump wins or receives more bad press.
