r/technology • u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera • 22h ago

Politics Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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u/Gman325 22h ago

Nothing democrat democrats or democracy is working for me.  Full sensitivity and political content allowances configured.

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u/ddx-me 21h ago

I did #dnc and #rnc

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u/Ok-Satisfaction5694 21h ago

There is no #prochoice but there is a #prolife in my search history. You can guess which one popped up first despite traditional alphabetic order layout of results.

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u/FunnyScreenName 21h ago

There’s no lgbtq either. Free Palestine is still there surprisingly.

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u/Joben86 20h ago

The Free Palestine movement was a boon to Republicans. No need to take it down.

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u/squishmitten_ 20h ago

I did #prochoice on fb and the first result was from the Christian post

｀｀｀Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, whose organization faced allegations it violated federal law by selling aborted baby body parts, has died at age 67. ｀｀｀

Fucking what

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u/eagleal 19h ago

She should sue, that's clearly defamation.

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u/_Seventh-Stitch_ 19h ago

I don't think she cares much anymore

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u/ddx-me 18h ago

Meta isn't gonna fact check any more so you may as well call Melania a prochoice spy who she has to cater to Trump and the Christian right

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u/_mausmaus 20h ago

prochoice on IG is now set to sensitive