Former President Trump slammed Meta and Google on Tuesday for allegedly censoring searches related to the failed attempt on his life, urging his supporters to “go after” the two Big Tech companies.
The Republican presidential candidate was hit with a string of strange incidents that included Meta’s artificial intelligence software calling the assassination attempt “fictitious,” Meta-owned Facebook banning the iconic photo of Trump raising his fist after the shooting and the search bar of Google showed none. results related to the tragic incident in his release window.
Both companies denied there was any bias, instead claiming they were innocent mistakes after being contacted by The Post.
Trump would have none of that in a cap-filled post on his social media platform, Truth Social, which he launched after being banned from Facebook and Twitter following the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol.
“Facebook has just admitted it mistakenly censored ‘Trump assassination attempt photo’ and got caught. Same for Google,” Trump wrote. “They made it virtually impossible to find pictures or anything about this heinous act. Both are facing HUGE FLASHBACK FOR CENSORSHIP REQUESTS.”
He continued, “Here we go again, another attempt to rig the Election!!! GO AFTER META AND GOOGLE. THEY KNOW WE ARE ALL WISE WITH THEM, WE WILL BE MUCH MORE TIGHTER THIS TIME. MAGA2024!”
The outburst comes after users on X shared reports that their Facebook accounts labeled the image of Trump pumping his fist in the air after the July 13 assassination as “altered.”
It was accompanied by the message “Independent fact-checkers reviewed a similar photo and said it was altered in a way that could mislead people.”
A company spokesperson admitted that incorrect fact-checking was being applied to the photo.
The Facebook incident was followed by even more outrage over Meta’s AI software not producing false information or results about the assassination attempt — but answering questions about presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
On Tuesday, a Meta executive apologized for the errors and blamed ‘hallucinations’ for the erroneous results from its AI tool.
“These types of responses are referred to as hallucinations, which is an industry-wide issue that we see in all generative AI systems and is an ongoing challenge for how AI handles real-time events going forward,” said Joel Kaplan, Deputy Point of Global Policy. .
Kaplan added that “both of these issues are being addressed.”
On Monday, Google users expressed shock when they discovered that the website’s autocomplete feature had no references to the July 13 attack.
Instead, the search engine recommended other search results, such as the failed assassination of former President Reagan.
The keywords “Trump assassination attempt” also did not return any additional results.
A Google spokesperson told The Post that there was no “manual action taken on these predictions” and that its systems include “protections” against Autocomplete predictions “related to political violence.”
“We are working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up-to-date. Of course, Autocomplete is just a tool to help people save time, and they can still search for anything they want. After this horrific act, people turned to Google to find high-quality information – we connected them with useful results and will continue to do so,” the spokesperson added.
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