Election interference: Facebook edition

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Editor’s note: This report will not be posted on Must Read Alaska’s Facebook page because the company is deplatforming conservatives. Join us over on X/Twitter.

Anchorage resident Jay McDonald was one of those who found that a photo he had posted on social media of Donald Trump right after the assassination attempt on July 13 was blocked by Facebook.

He wasn’t the only one. Soon, others were writing about their same experiences. People were posting on X/Twitter their experiences with Facebook’s election interference.

The photo was of Donald Trump triumphantly raising his fist after being shot in the ear. People who posted the photo showed that the image was blocked and blurred by Facebook, with the message that it was an “altered photo.”

The photo that McDonald posted was put on his Facebook page the same day as the shooting in Butler, Penn. and is the same photo that has been seen millions of times around the world.

Dani Lever, a communications employee for Facebook eventually took to X/Twitter to explain that the removal of the photo was an “error.”

Screenshot of Dani Lever’s Twitter post on July 29, 2024.

Critics note, however, that these errors only seem to be applied to conservatives. In McDonald’s case, Facebook did not say it was its system but was “independent fact checkers” who determined his photo to have been doctored.

Earlier, people had noticed that Google and artificial intelligence programs were preventing them from seeing information about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

13 COMMENTS

  1. Now Chris Constant is going to think his blueanon conspiracy theories about the shooting being staged are true.

    • You mean the same Chris that freaked out when Alaskans carried discreetly during Assembly Meetings?
      When informed of the law and confronted for trying to violate our constitutional rights…says I own a gun.
      Does he know when we say guns its a firearms and not a water gun or lube gun?

      How is this liberal turd allowed to represent Alaskans?
      Geez, Alaska is so far off course its sickens me.

    • Love the handle Yukon. Yukon Cornelious was an OG operator. Check his weapons belt….He was equipped before Tac-A-Cool was a thing.

    • They defend ‘democracy’ but not a Constitutional Republic. We’ve been snowed into believing the ruled by a majority propaganda.

  2. Embrace this.

    Any utterance is up for man-handling by the “new frontier” of communication by platforms – i.e. Facebook aka Meta — the OG – Google – who Lil’ Boi “Z” wants to grow up to be..

    Rebrand – but all my dire requests to Facebook were denied.

    People had a group on FB in a coordinated effort to dismantle my life.

    I am an Alaska Native. A girl from nowhere – doing barely anything in the grand scheme of things.

    And this is the frightening truth – I am you – what we see being done to incredibly powerful people with a lot of resources and a lot of people to support them.

    I was defiant enough to defend myself with no resources. And I lost.

    I did not lose ultimately in court when all was said and done.

    But my life was bombed and sabotaged due to the orchestrating of a group of local people from my own community that used Facebook Groups and Search engine manipulation of Google by people with ties to a local newspaper that provided the platform to make me not trust my own culture or the home that I was born in.

    What does that mean and why am I saying this?

    I am saying this intentionally and unequivocally on purpose.

    If we want a free and safe world embrace Elon Musk and Marc Andressen.

    Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

    My feet are on the ground – I trust Marc Andressen and for my reaching for the stars we need Elon Musk.

    As Alaska Natives we identify as innovators, resourceful, and the largest private landholders on this globe – so we are leaders.

    We need to embrace the best the brightest that hits home like the American Top 40 Casey Kassum, “keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

    Do not vote for politicians – trust the innovators that are breaking trail and take their guidance on who to vote for.

    With love,

    Trudy

  3. Nothing was in error as FB claims it is all purposely done because they can’t control the will of the people. Reason why I ditched FB about 6 years ago.

  4. I will bet every dollar that Biden allows me to keep in my wallet that the leftists will swear this is not election interference in any way.
    But, these same leftists will swear that paying a prostitute…. errr… I mean… porn star to keep her mouth shut (for once), is election interference worthy of 34 felony charges.
    .
    Yep… makes sense.

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