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Donald Trump says Mark Zuckerberg told him he doesn’t feel comfortable supporting a Democrat.
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Trump told Fox News that Zuckerberg told him after the assassination attempt that he was “very brave.”
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Trump added that Zuckerberg personally apologized for Meta wrongly censoring 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 told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Friday that Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt and told him he didn’t feel comfortable supporting a Democrat. Trump added that the two have spoken several times since that conversation.
“So Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called me a couple of times. He called me after the event and he said, ‘That was really great, that was really brave,'” Trump told Bartiromo. “And he even announced that he wouldn’t support a Democrat because he couldn’t, because he respected me for what I did that day.”
Trump subsequently said that during their conversations, Zuckerberg apologized for Facebook and Instagram censoring a photo of Trump taken immediately after the July 13 shooting.
Meta spokesperson Dani Lever acknowledged the erroneous censorship in a post on X. “This was an error,” Lever wrote. “This fact check was initially applied to a manipulated photo of the Secret Service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the error.”
A Meta spokesperson declined to comment on a conversation between Trump and Zuckerberg, but did not deny that they had spoken. The spokesperson also referred Business Insider to Zuckerberg’s statement last month that he would not endorse any presidential candidates this year.
Trump also accused Google of censoring content about him, saying that when users searched for “assassination attempt,” his name did not automatically appear in the search.
Trump told Bartiromo that Google never called him to apologize.
“Google has been very bad,” Trump told Bartiromo. “They’ve been very irresponsible and I feel like Google is about to be shut down because I don’t think Congress is going to accept it. I really don’t think so. Google has to be careful.”
In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump claimed that Google had made it “virtually impossible to find images or anything else about this heinous act.”
He continued: “Here we go again, another attempt to rig the election!!! GET AFTER META AND GOOGLE. LET THEM KNOW WE ARE ALL WISE, THIS TIME WE WILL BE MUCH HARDER.”
Google responded to the allegations in a post on X, writing that its internal system “did not provide predictions for searches about the assassination attempt” because it had “built-in protections against political violence” that were outdated.
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