Not even a month after the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, numerous different tech companies are being accused of attempting to rewrite history as the results of the event appear to be hidden.
Users on social media quickly began to raise questions as their inquiries into the event yielded minimal results, sometimes even flat-out being refused.
One user attempted to ask Meta AI about the assassination attempt before being told that the model could not answer as it does not have access to “the most up-to-date information.”
Woke AI lies about history. pic.twitter.com/zFOAZgYbLT
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 28, 2024
Then, the same AI was able to answer a question about Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign despite being launched after the attempt on Trump’s life.
Meta AI is far from the only tech platform doing so as Snapchat AI, ChatGPT and even the Google search engine refuse to provide answers or autofill about the assassination attempt.
seemed too insane to believe so I checked this one myself pic.twitter.com/fBAowLF1CT
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) July 28, 2024
Snapchat AI won’t give any information on the attempted ass*ssin*tion and says they haven’t heard anything about it. pic.twitter.com/NjyTwI2TlL
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 28, 2024
ChatGPT says there’s no verified information or evidence that Trump was almost ass*ssin*ted and there have been no attempts.
They’re erasing history in real time. pic.twitter.com/43RqAbgb1h
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 28, 2024
Social media users began to claim that these companies were attempting to “eras[e] history” by keeping information on the event suppressed.
Erasing history? Influencing a presidential election? @emollick @elonmusk @joerogan @JonathanTurley pic.twitter.com/MuOQKTek7J
— Aaron Jack (@AaronJack87) July 28, 2024
Wow @DuckDuckGo literally erasing history in front of my eyes… same search a few minutes apart. pic.twitter.com/wbDJYrcDkW
— Shelnutt (@ttunlehs) July 28, 2024
The same company who censors Republican emails is now erasing history.
Pathetic. https://t.co/iZBg98ZA6j
— Nathan Leamer (@NathanLeamerDC) July 28, 2024
Fox Business reported:
Google users searching for the attempted assassination of former President Trump were miffed when the desired results failed to populate on the search engine.
Instead, the website autocomplete feature omitted the results of the July 13 shooting, drawing criticism from social media users who accused the big tech giant of trying to influence the presidential election.
Screenshots from Google instead showed reccommended search results of the failed assassination of Ronald Reagan and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, whose death sparked World War I, the shooting of Bob Marley and the failed attempt on former President Gerald Ford.
While these companies may have reasons as to why information on the assassination attempt is being suppressed, that won’t mean that they are good answers.
For now, we’ll have to wait and see what reasons these tech companies had for keeping important information concealed from the public.
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