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President Trump revealed on Friday that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg contacted him multiple times in recent weeks.
During an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, the 45th president discussed Meta’s censoring of the July 13 attempted assassination when he said that Zuckerberg had called to apologize to him and that Meta was remedying the error.
“Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called me a few times. He called me after the event and he said, ‘That was really amazing, it was very brave,’ and you know and he actually announced he’s not gonna support a Democrat because he can’t because he respected me for what I did that day,” Trump remarked.
He continued, telling Bartiromo, “I was called by Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, the day before, on this same subject, and he actually apologized. He said they made a mistake, etcetera, etcetera, and that they’re correcting the mistake.”
Facebook censored the iconic photo of President Trump as he held his fist in the air before leaving the stage, but the company said that the fact check note was “initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling” and that the fact check was “incorrectly applied” to the real photo in some instances.
President Trump also told Bartiromo that Google had made no effort to apologize for censoring searches of the assassination attempt.
Google acknowledged that its search function was not populating a result when users searched for the assassination. The company told Fox Business that its “systems have protections against Autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were working as intended prior to” July 13.
Google, however, has not explained why searches for President Trump populate results related to “Harris” and “Trump,” but when users search for Kamala Harris, only results related to “Kamala Harris” are populated.
