Facebook wrongly called the popular image of Donald Trump pumping his fist in the air after an assassination attempt against him an “altered photo,” a spokesperson admitted Monday.
Users across X shared reports that their Facebook accounts were labeling the image as “altered”, explaining “Independent fact-checkers reviewed a similar photo and said it was altered in a way that could mislead people.”
Meta Public Affairs Director Dani Lever later explained on X it was done in error as the systems were meant to detect a separate version of the image.
“This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed, and we apologize for the mistake,” Lever wrote.