Gunman shared his plans on Facebook before the shooting, governor says. Company says messages were private
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that prior to the Uvalde elementary school shooting, the gunman shared his plans on Facebook about 30 minutes before reaching the school.
Abbott said in the first message, he wrote: "I'm going to shoot my grandmother."
The gunman later said: "I shot my grandmother" and "I'm going to shoot an elementary school," according to Abbott who described the messages as posts.
A spokesperson for Meta, formerly known as Facebook, said Wednesday the messages written by the shooter were “private one-to-one text messages,” contrary to Abbott’s assertion the gunman made the posts on Facebook.
“The messages Gov. Abbott described were private one-to-one text messages that were discovered after the terrible tragedy occurred. We are closely cooperating with law enforcement in their ongoing investigation,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said.
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The guy got a point here...
Facebook is filtering the wrong shit
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@stux they are part of the problem at least
@stux damn 😂😂😂
@switch6 The reply on the Meta dude's reply is not even wrong :(
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 1000 character limit.
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Top comments!, Andy Stone, he's the "Communications for Meta"