Big Tech powerhouses like Google and Meta – the company that owns Facebook and Instagram – are under fire for their apparent efforts to block information concerning the assassination attempt on President Trump.
Meta flagged, censored and buried the iconic photo of former President Trump with his fist in the air, the American flag waving behind him and a bloodied ear immediately after being shot.
On July 29th, many Instagram users that had shared the photo weeks prior received notices that “independent fact checkers reviewed a similar photo and said it was altered in a way that could mislead people,” put “altered photo/video” warnings over the photo, limited the photo's visibility and in some cases removed the photo altogether or locked/limited accounts until users removed the photo themselves.
Users reported that Meta's AI tool even called the assassination attempt on Donald Trump a “fictional event” and offered no information about it when prompted, with Google's AI tool acting similarly and claiming that he was never almost assassinated.
A Meta employee claimed this was an honest error, and the result of the authentic photo being mistaken for a photoshopped version, showing the secret service agents smiling. The public remains skeptical of this explanation, and rightfully so, considering these “errors” only seem to affect one political party.
When users typed “assassination attempt” into Google's search engine a few short days ago, they were prompted with results about Ronald Reagan, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Gerald Ford, but none about President Trump.
The photo was an incredible asset to the Trump campaign, shared widely by loyal supporters and commanding the admiration and respect of Americans from all walks of life.
It was considered an incredible show of strength and resolve, offering a stark contrast to Joe Biden, who has consistently struggled to string together a coherent sentence in public appearances and whose staff prints step by step instructions with pictures showing him how to get on and off stage.
Democrats have been panicking about the upcoming election for months, with their concerns especially escalating following the debate and the failed assassination attempt on former President Trump at his Pennsylvania rally.
Readers should note that ahead of the 2020 election, Twitter, Meta and Google also censored the infamous Hunter Biden laptop story, prohibiting the story from being circulated on social media, even via private messages, or effectively searched for. This took place prior to Elon Musk's purchase of X (formerly known as Twitter), where the story was also suppressed, and the platform went as far as suspending The New York Post's account, as they were the outlet that broke the story. Years later, legacy media and government agencies admitted that the laptop was authentic, the story was true and without the interference of these Big Tech conglomerates, the election would have had a drastically different outcome.
As much as Democrats grandstand about the importance of “democracy” or point to “Russian interference,” it seems that their allies in Silicon Valley have the most concrete track record of election meddling, and present the greatest threat to the democratic process.
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