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Donald Trump says Mark Zuckerberg told him she doesn’t feel comfortable supporting a Democrat.
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Trump told Fox News that Zuckerberg told him he was “very brave” after the assassination attempt.
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Trump added that Zuckerberg personally apologized for Meta’s mistaken censorship of a photo of Trump.
Former President Donald Trump says Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently told him he would not support a Democrat in the 2024 election.
The Republican presidential candidate said Maria Bartiromo from Fox News on Friday that Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt and said he didn’t feel right supporting a Democrat. Trump added that the two have spoken several times since that conversation.
“Then Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called me a couple of times. He called me after the event and said, ‘That was really amazing, that was really brave,'” Trump told Bartiromo. “And he actually announced that he won’t support a Democrat because he can’t, because he respected me for what I did that day.”
Trump then said that during the conversations, Zuckerberg apologized for Facebook and Instagram censoring a photo of Trump taken immediately after the July 13 shooting.
A Meta spokesperson, Dani Lever, acknowledged the mistaken censorship in a post on X. “This was a mistake,” Lever wrote. “This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo that showed Secret Service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied this fact check to the actual photo. This has been corrected and we apologize for the error.”
A Meta spokesperson declined to comment on any conversations between Trump and Zuckerberg, but did not dispute that they spoke. The spokesperson also referred Business Insider to Zuckerberg’s statement last month that he would not endorse any presidential candidate this year.
Trump also accused Google of censoring content about him because when users searched for “attempted assassination”, his name was not auto-populated in the search query.
Trump told Bartiromo that Google never called him to apologize.
“Google has been really bad,” Trump told Bartiromo. “They’ve been very irresponsible and I have a feeling that Google is going to be close to going out of business because I don’t think Congress is going to accept this. I really don’t think so. Google needs to be careful.”
In a post on Social Truth on TuesdayTrump claimed that Google made it “virtually impossible to find photos or anything about this heinous act.”
He continued: “Here we go again, another attempt to rig the election!!! GO AFTER META AND GOOGLE. LET THEM KNOW WE ARE ALL WISE TO THEM, IT WILL BE MUCH HARDER THIS TIME.”
Google responded to the accusations in a post on Xwriting that its internal system “did not provide predictions for assassination attempt queries” because it had “built-in protections related to political violence” that were outdated.
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