Facebook acknowledged on Monday that it temporarily shadow-banned a historic photograph of former President Donald Trump raising a bloody fist following the attempted assassination on July 13th. This decision to censor the image, which was intended for the cover of Time Magazine’s August edition, was labeled as an “error” by a company spokesperson, according to a report by the New York Post.
The controversy erupted when End Wokeness, a conservative social media account, revealed that Facebook had threatened to suspend another user for sharing the image, labeling it as “misinformation.” Dani Lever, a spokesperson for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, addressed the issue, stating that the censorship was a “mistake.”
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“Yes, this was an error,” Lever confirmed in response to a message from conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who criticized the social media network for blocking the photo. Lever explained that the initial fact check was meant for a doctored photo showing Secret Service agents smiling. “In some cases, our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo,” Lever added, noting that the mistake has been corrected and offering an apology.
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