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Trump says Mark Zuckerberg keeps calling him on the phone [View all]
Trump says Mark Zuckerberg keeps calling him on the phonehttps://www.theverge.com/2024/8/2/24212119/trump-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-google-interview
Former President Donald Trump has expressed a newfound fondness for Mark Zuckerberg after years of railing against him.
In an interview with Fox Business that aired Friday, Trump said Mark Zuckerberg recently called him “to apologize” over Meta’s AI assistant falsely saying the assassination attempt on Trump didn’t happen. (A company blog post written by Joel Kaplan, Meta’s global head of policy, attributed the erroneous responses to “hallucinations” in the system.) In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump claimed that both Meta and Google were “RIGGING THE ELECTION!!!” by suppressing information about the shooting.
Zuckerberg’s apology could help thaw his contentious relationship with Trump, who has held a long, public grudge against Meta and its chief executive.
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In an interview with Fox Business that aired Friday, Trump said Mark Zuckerberg recently called him “to apologize” over Meta’s AI assistant falsely saying the assassination attempt on Trump didn’t happen. (A company blog post written by Joel Kaplan, Meta’s global head of policy, attributed the erroneous responses to “hallucinations” in the system.) In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump claimed that both Meta and Google were “RIGGING THE ELECTION!!!” by suppressing information about the shooting.
Zuckerberg’s apology could help thaw his contentious relationship with Trump, who has held a long, public grudge against Meta and its chief executive.
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I wonder if this is true, and if so what to make of it.
I'm no fan of The Zuck, but I won't take Trump's word for it.
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