Facebook ADMITS censoring iconic photo of Trump surviving assassination attempt: ‘This was an error’

Reports emerged on X on Monday indicating that Mark Zucerkberg's Facebook had been censoring photos of Donald Trump, fist raised, face bloodied, after the assassination attempt against him. The photos were censored by third-party fact checkers who claimed that the photo had been altered. Facebook since admitted to censoring the photos in error.

The iconic photo, snapped by a photographer for the Associated Press, had been viral on social media before a copy of the photo was edited and circulated, which showed, erroneously, that Secret Service agents were "smiling as they surround[ed] him after the shooting." While that photo was censored, in the aftermath, the original was censored as well.
 

BREAKING: Facebook is now censoring the iconic image of Trump's defiant fist

It's now flagged as MISINFORMATION pic.twitter.com/ePUl5kuMw6

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