Staff Reports
The digital town square has become a battleground for media bias, and the latest skirmish involves the blatant cover-up of a serious assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. It’s astonishing how social media platforms like Google and Facebook can wield their powers to distort reality, leading to an unimaginable erasure of facts. In a questionable twist, Facebook’s AI labeled the assassination attempt a work of fiction while eagerly dishing out advice on Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign. The irony could not be thicker.
When users turned to Facebook’s AI, hoping for clarity on whether Trump had been the target of an assassination, they were met with a dismissive denial. The AI cheerfully declared that there had been no real attempt on Trump’s life. Meanwhile, just a short search on Google for the details surrounding the July 13 events yielded a vanishing act; the platform’s search results seemed to bury the incident deeper than a cat in a litter box. It’s almost as if these tech giants are hell-bent on rewriting history per their political preferences.
Meta AI tool (Facebook) calls Trump assassination attempt ‘fictional,’ offers details on Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign
How much are social media companies like Google and Facebook effectively contributing to Democrats. https://t.co/45fhHlGBxL
— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) July 29, 2024
Meta’s AI response raises eyebrows not just for its content but for the broader implications of its creation. Mark Zuckerberg’s company prides itself on leading with “intelligence,” yet its bots appear to be operating with an agenda instead of engaging in fact-based discourse. The failure of both Google and Facebook to provide accurate information about a serious event like this assassination attempt does not merely highlight their ineptitude but points to a systematic effort to protect certain narratives while disregarding others.
Adding insult to injury, Facebook also “mistakenly” censored an iconic image of Trump immediately after the alleged shooting—an image that shows him triumphantly raising his fist, even after being grazed by a bullet. This was apparently an error based on a false report about a doctored photo, but it’s telling that the “fact-checkers” were ready to pounce on a powerful image of a Republican leader while remaining oblivious to their double standards. The explanation provided by Meta is as nonsensical as using a sledgehammer to crack a nut; if they can label a momentous event as “fiction,” what’s to stop them from scrubbing the history they don’t like?
The unholy alliance between tech behemoths and the progressive political landscape has never been clearer. With the FBI playing its own guessing games about the details of the Trump shooting and Google’s search results conveniently absent on the topic, one has to wonder who’s really doing the gaslighting here. When it comes to the treatment of Trump compared to Harris, the disparity in search results says it all. Look up Trump, and get inundated with news about his Democratic opponents; look up Harris, and it’s as if Trump has vanished from the digital realm entirely.
Calls for free speech and transparency grow louder as Americans increasingly recognize the lengths to which these companies will go to control narratives. Facebook’s admission of wrongdoing presents an opportunity to question the credibility of AI-driven moderators that seem less like impartial arbiters of truth and more like partisan gatekeepers. The future of public discourse dances on a precarious tightrope, and with tech’s heavy-handed bias, it’s clear that conservative voices are the ones often left hanging in the balance.
