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Facebook Exec Explains Mass CENSORSHIP of Trump Image Was an ‘Error’

AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File

As Twitchy reported earlier Monday, people who were posting the photo of Donald Trump triumphantly raising his fist after being shot in the ear by a would-be assassin were getting messages that the image was blocked because it was an "altered photo."

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Dani Lever, a communications director for Facebook (and formerly for former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo), eventually got around to addressing the outrage, saying that the censorship of the image had been an "error." Funny how those errors always go in one direction.

Even Mark Zuckerberg had called the photo "badass," and Axios reported that a photo editor at a major news outlet had warned against dangerous overuse of the photo, calling it "free PR" for the Trump campaign.

Here's Zuckerberg:

So they're saying an altered photo was censored, but that mistakenly spread to unaltered versions of the photo.

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People are reporting that Instagram, which, like Facebook, is owned by Meta, is still censoring the photo. But we're sure they're right on top of it.

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