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...there was some attempted dunking going on here about what Google was allowing its users to see with respect to the attempt on Trump's life. Some intrepid posters here who feel they have the skillz and the mandate to determine what is talked about here (or not) thought that just because they couldn't repro what was happening that It Was All FAKE Newz and people were stoopid liars.
As always, reality is never what libgoobs say it is. At least one Big Tech firm was in fact limiting who could see what.
Here's a link from the New York Post, chosen intentionally:
https://nypost.com/2024/07/29/business/facebook-ad...Facebook acknowledged that it mistakenly censored the iconic image of former President Donald Trump with his fist raised in the immediate aftermath of the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
A post on Mark Zuckerberg’s social media site by a user with the handle End Wokeness that showed the Republican presidential candidate defiantly pumping his fist in the air while blood streams down his face had initially been flagged as misinformation.
The user was threatened with being deplatformed.
However, on Monday, Dani Lever, a spokesperson for the social network’s parent company, Meta, admitted the tech giant made a “mistake.”
“Yes, this was an error,” Lever wrote on X in response to conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who had called out Facebook for not allowing users to share the photo.Now some will claim that the other thread was about Google, and so what do they have to do with all this? Welp, let's listen to their spox:
https://nypost.com/2024/07/28/us-news/google-omitt...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 “associated with political violence.”
“We’re 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 to. Following this terrible act, people turned to Google to find high quality information — we connected them with helpful results, and will continue to do so,” the spokesperson said.
Once word of the oddity spread, it caught the attention of thousands of users who were able to recreate the phenomenon on their own, including Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who wrote “Can verify” alongside a screenshot of his own attempted search.Of course, all these people are probably lying.
