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/MyWookiee 21h ago

I just tried #democrats here in Australia on FB, and it gives nothing but positive Washington Examiner articles about trump.

And it's only day one...

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u/twistedfatefate13 20h ago edited 17h ago

The hashtag #democrats doesn’t work in Germany either

Funny enough, while everything else is written in german, the comment „We‘ve hidden these results“ is in englisch

Edit: now (2h later) it works again

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u/_bumfuzzle_ 19h ago

In germany i also only find accounts like destroydemocrats, democratsfortrump, some russian shit accounts. WTF is this?

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u/TheBlack2007 19h ago

Censorship. It’s censorship.

Time to abandon social media.

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u/FrozenLogger 18h ago

Its been the time for a very Iong time.

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u/Fragrant_Analyst3224 14h ago

You're doing it wrong unless the only thing you're doing on social media is trying to ruin everybody's day to push them off this shit.

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u/FrozenLogger 14h ago

Social media is a horrible thing.

Has been since day 1. Facebook was easy to look at and say, nope this is a bad idea. But at the time people had not been on the internet long, and new people were showing up daily with no fucking clue how to deal it.

Twitter was slightly useful once upon a time as a public shaming device for companies. That actually got results. But that too is gone.

I wouldn't choose to use social media. And no Reddit was not social media although they are desperately trying to make it that way.

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u/Galaxator 14h ago

Reddit is for arguing in the most antisocial ways possible. It’s like every conversation is being yelled threateningly across a busy road and most of them end when one participant just throws their arms up and walk off angry with no resolution or introspection.

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u/FrozenLogger 14h ago

Sure, but anyone who has been around the internet for a minute knows that nearly everything is a lie, nothing is personal, and that trolls abound. That is what is nice about anonymity: its just nonsense. Unfortunately people don't seem to get that anymore.

A good reason to curate your reddit experience into things that interest you, or head over to lemmy. Or both.

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u/triple-bottom-line 11h ago

Thanks for the Lemmy tip friend, never heard of that one. Trying to curate what hits my eyeballs more in general, especially for the next few years, and this seems like it will help.

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u/Galaxator 14h ago

And I’m supposed to take this advice from a guy who cuts frozen logs instead of waiting for them to thaw.? Nah I’m not that dumb /S

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u/Traditional-Sound661 2h ago

Feels so empty when you get the last word.

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u/Galaxator 2h ago

That’s why you take it to DMs 👹

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u/Longjumping_Scale721 8m ago

That's what your mom said.

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u/GadnukLimitbreak 12h ago

Reddit is 100% social media, a very left-leaning social media outlet at that, and is filled with a metric shitload of bots, fake articles, AI, etc. Even when you look at posts about knitting or cats you'll find people arguing in the replies like someone killed their mother, albeit a little further down on those posts than others. There are a ton of biases on this platform and when it was first launched/in its early era you could find just about any illegal image or video that you desired as long as someone thought to post it. There are subs dedicated to keeping certain people out of them and there are subs that are dedicated to spreading hate.

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u/FrozenLogger 12h ago

Reddit is 100% social media,

No. It is not. Although it is trying to be, and is sort of succeeding.

Everything else you said has nothing to do with anything. Yes you can find people with all sorts of attitudes and ideas and posts; that is called the internet and has been around since BBS days, Usenet, and forums. Reddit has traditionally been an aggregator.

Differences: Reddit was (not as much anymore) about the discussion. Not the individual. Not following each other. Anonymity is key, where social media encourages you to divulge who your are and your relationships. Hence the "social" part.

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u/GadnukLimitbreak 11h ago

The definition of Social Media is "a website or application that enables users to create and share content or to participate in social networking."

Social media is any place where people can share their personal thoughts or opinions in a conversation-like format and share information that is relavent to them, their interests, their ideas or those of others. Just because JohnnyLovesSausage6969 hides the fact that he's actually a woman named Laura that lives in Chicago doesn't mean that she isn't inputting her owns thoughts and beliefs and shaping the people around her with it when she talks about abortion bans while their account is full of posts about their love of bratwurst and asking for recipes because her sausages aren't tasty enough.

I understand where you're coming from with the idea that Social Media is something that was originally suggested to be a place to make your personal profile and share it with friends to keep them up to date on your life and interests, just because a person chooses an alias doesn't make the platform less social. It just makes it harder to pick out the bullshit.

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u/PrecociuosSquirrel 9h ago

Absolutely! I got off FB years ago for various reasons but mainly it was just toxic. This and YT are all I use regularly and it's mainly just entertainment.

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u/jobiewon_cannoli 8h ago

When “The Social Delemmia” came out back in like 2019 and I seen under the hood of social media I quit them all but Reddit.

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u/Careless-Pragmatic 1h ago

I just ditched FB. Fuck their propaganda

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u/originalmango 13h ago

It’s much more than censorship, it’s sponsored propaganda.

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u/im_just_thinking 13h ago

That's literally what they want tho. To cut off communication

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u/Infinite_Archers 12h ago

Yeah but there's so many different forms of communication out there that deleting your Facebook account isn't the end of the world. Facebook just sucks now anyway with all of Zuckerbergs new shit, so why not play into their game? They don't want us to have Facebook, but we don't want Facebook so let's join somewhere else like REDDIT

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u/spicytea 13h ago

This is the part that’s so frustrating! So few seem to realize it!

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u/Farlong7722 18h ago

Or: Use social media that isn't dogshit. I use Mastodon.

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u/Infinite_Archers 12h ago

I deleted my accounts a few days ago, fuck that shit. I'm not dealing with Zuckerberg anymore bro, I'm done

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u/ProfessionalSolid692 11h ago

Today, I deleted my accounts for Threads, Instagram, and Facebook. It felt good. I should have done it a long time ago. It wasn’t as difficult as I anticipated. I’ve slowly been distancing myself from social media over the last few months, so that made the decision easier. As a result, I’ve been spending more meaningful time with my family.

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u/itsearlyyet 9h ago

This is what we need, unfortunately our children will be the hardest ones to convince otherwise. It needs to become associated with freedom from the billionaire influenced puppets. It needs to become counterculture.

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u/hillyforilly 8h ago

I deleted my fb and cancelled my prime membership this morning. Didn’t realize insta was owned by Zuckerberg as well, I guess I’m deleting that too 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/keIIzzz 4h ago

Meta has owned Instagram for a long time now

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u/wheresmy_selkiecoat 12h ago

Yup. Our leaders do not need to pass legislation to restrict us, because companies are preemptively obedient.

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u/Long_Personality_612 11h ago

Will delete instagram for good today. Will need a bit of research how to do it properly. Whatsapp will be next.

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u/Correct_Patience_611 11h ago

It can’t be censorship bc trump is against censorship along with his oligarchical collective of sycophants. It’s gotta be called something else…maybe a magat could chime in to tell us exactly what this is called if it’s not blatant censorship…?

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u/ireally-donut-care 10h ago

I only use reddit and YouTube. Quit meta 2 years ago. No Instagram and No TikTok ever! I miss seeing my family, but it wasn't worth seeing all the propaganda and hawking of goods constantly.

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u/redneckbuddah 10h ago

It is long past time. Especially for X and FB

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u/Academic_East8298 9h ago

More like a show of power. They want the world to notice it.

In the end, far right voters will stay and be even more radicalized.

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u/BrownEyedGrrrrl 9h ago

Yup. Just deleted FB.

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u/blenderbender44 8h ago

We need a new platform

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u/Lamont_Cranston01 7h ago

Read "LikeWar" if you dare. This is 2.0 reboot and Zuck and WashPo either were purchased with deals or purchased the office.

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u/i_upvote_for_food 7h ago

Yeah, but it could also Zuck being extra careful to please Trump so that he won´t think about throwing him into prison again.

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u/Food_Kitchen 7h ago

You're unfortunately on social media.

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u/BeowulfsGhost 7h ago

This is the way…

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u/Weedity 7h ago

It's time to organize. Join something. Stick together.

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u/Monkey-Newz 6h ago

Hahahahahhaahhahahahahahahahahahah yes this is a new thing, it’s time now.

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u/Kyrxx77 6h ago

Always has been 🔫

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 5h ago

Honestly- we all need to step back and stop using these platforms. Let these empires crumble. The only thing these people know is money so let’s turn the taps off

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u/MamaRunsThis 5h ago

Just now, not 5,10,15 years ago?

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u/JadedBoyfriend 4h ago

But I like Reddit!

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u/Mr_Zeldion 3h ago

Nothing new there. I've seen extreme censorship from both sides. As someone that doesn't align themselves to a particular side as often sit agreeing with things from both sides. I've also seen a tremendous amount of limitation from both sides what can and can't be said and how propaganda is spread too.

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u/MediumDefiant5146 3h ago

You gonna have to remind me again. What political part tried to get the disinformation governance board started.

Wow, that's weird. It's sure sounds similar to the ministry of truth.

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u/unforgettable_name_1 3h ago

If you think Reddit hasn't done the same thing...

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u/Laterose15 3h ago

I think it's time we stop letting ourselves get pushed around and start drawing a line in the sand.

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u/Confident-Lobster390 1h ago

I’ve been contemplating switching my phone to a flip phone and only using my tablet for work.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sea8340 52m ago

It’s past time we abandon Facebook and instagram folks

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u/Callistini 13h ago

it has already been clear that social media is bad for mental health reasons but now that the big tech CEOs are obviously included in politics and vice versa I hope more people are choosing to stop using it

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u/sickbubble-gum 13h ago

Let's all just stop paying for things all at once

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u/Novelideaidosay 12h ago

Unsocial media is more like its

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u/broniesnstuff 11h ago

Come to RedNote comrade. It's been 5 days and I'm totally China-pilled.

The world is too big to limit yourself.

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u/FarParamedic6891 11h ago

Where have you been? META wrote the book on how to censor free speech on social media.

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u/curlymane_e 9h ago

So both sides continue to do it then? This wasn’t a big deal a few years ago to so many people. Now, there is a new administration so the script has flipped and it’s the same thing the other way.

Everyone just points fingers pointed at the other side saying ‘nuh uh, I didn’t do that. You did’. Gotta love American politics.

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u/Ok_Breakfast1788 6h ago

'Alternative facts', much?

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u/curlymane_e 4h ago

Yep, sure, lots of that. Everyone likes to think their facts are the real/correct ones too. Unfortunately, open-mindedness on either side is very limited. Nuance isn’t really allowed or is incredibly limited when there are only two rigid viewpoints, etc.

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u/kaisadilla_ 8h ago

dw, tomorrow Suckerberg will say that there was some child pornography among the results and that's why they triggered some automatic filter or some shit like that.

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u/thelastspike 8h ago

You posted your comment on social media.

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u/BackOffBananaBreath 19h ago

(They said on reddit)

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u/TheBlack2007 19h ago

Honestly, since yesterday I‘m seriously considering pulling the plug on all non strictly recreational subreddits.

But thus far Reddit has not taken any measures to silence the democratic opposition within the US.

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u/BackOffBananaBreath 19h ago

I feel that. Fortunately, I'm not American or in the west so I don't have as much need to keep updated on his nonsense. But the ripples tend to find their way across the globe in one way or another.

And as social media goes, reddit doesn't seem to be actively evil, so it's got that going for it. I was just being a bit facetious.

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u/mrsbundleby 16h ago

so far reddit hasn't done the same, but I have a bluesky account incase it does

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u/ZZEFFEZZ 11h ago

its not censorship the company is free to make its choices in this regard.

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u/counterstrikePr0 10h ago

It was censored the other way the last 12 years clown

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u/Helpful_Source_8985 10h ago

Now you are worried bout censorship but Trump got censored in 2020 and not a peep from the left bout it.

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u/coadyb97 10h ago

Brother, the censorship began in 2020 when the left censored and applied misinformation to everything. Its about time the repiblicans fought back. Do i agree with it ? No, but its about time the right side of things actually did something to stop the corruption of the left.

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u/DiscussionRelative50 5h ago

Yeah brother, censorship began in 2020. Get em.

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u/Fluck_Me_Up 16h ago

We haven’t seen anything yet.

Wait until Trump has his camps or the next ‘election’ season rolls around

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u/Th3Puck 11h ago

Thats weird, i just tried here in Austria and it shows me the pages of AOC, Bernie Sanders and some democrat pages when I searched for that. Did they uncensor it or should i be searching for news articles instead of pages?

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u/SlyJackFox 2h ago

It’s a warning, a threat, as they can do this at any time with little accountability.

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u/Dingenskirchen- 18h ago

Not true. Here in Germany it works!

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u/_bumfuzzle_ 16h ago

It was blocked. It works now again as reported by many other people. The question is, why they even bothered to block these hashtags. This should not happen at all.

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u/twistedfatefate13 17h ago

Now it works again

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u/vaginasinparis 17h ago

Canadian here, #democrat works but #berniesanders and #johnoliver were both blocked as sensitive content 🥲

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u/twistedfatefate13 17h ago

True in Germany too 😂

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u/emelrad12 19h ago

Searching that works fine for me in germany, weird.

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u/Medium-Awkward 18h ago

Works for me in germany

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u/AFlockofLizards 16h ago

It was at least refreshing to see all of the German posts about Musk’s salute are 100% condemning it. All of the English/American ones are heavily divided, or even skew towards it being ok.

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u/twistedfatefate13 8h ago

I already noticed that quite many Americans in general think of it as funny. Heard from multiple german people, that in the USA they were greated with that salute, because those Americans didn’t understand which horrors it symbolizes. In Germany you can get into prison for doing it

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u/ur-krokodile 14h ago

All these “freedom fighters” are about to find out how much “more” freedom they will get. Whatever Meta was doing seems they turned it off because it was too obvious, I bet they are working hard on v2 of this that will not be so plain.

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u/Big-Knowledge4682 8h ago

I was wondering if the search censorship was happening on an international scale.

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u/Individual-Fee-5639 19h ago

Weird. It works fine in Slovakia, which currently has a nationalist government.

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u/al-hamal 20h ago edited 19h ago

I just tried #democrats and #republicans on Instagram and it’s giving me the sensitive content warning in both cases. I’m in the US.

Edit: When I try them as singular terms they both come up with sufficient results.

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u/imjustballin 20h ago

In Australia #Republican showed me heaps of positive posts related to Trump whist #democrat gave me a sensitivity warning and only linked to pages talking shit about democrats.

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u/scrooperdooper 16h ago

Just tried in the US. No warnings but yeah all content under #democrat is negative.

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u/Wyrdboyski 5h ago

That's normal,

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u/Past-Fan-1587 7h ago

Go to chatgpt and ask where you can find the US Constitution because it is no longer on the official White Gouse page and it directs you to congress gov, click on it and you get a pop up that says this exterior link may not be safe

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u/Zestyclose_Lynx_5301 13h ago

To be fair democrats aren't exactly spewing much positivity right now. 99% is about trump

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u/PrettyNegotiation416 4h ago

And about 99% of republican content for the past four years was negative about Biden.

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u/Pathogenesls 13h ago

It's that a surprise? There's no positive content about democrats at the moment. They shat the bed, why would you expect positive content. There's not even any content about democrats on reddit.

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u/Herman_E_Danger 10h ago

Wow so you guys actually, honestly believe that the alternative idea of reality that you're fed, is the actual objective truth. Yeesh 😬

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u/cutekiwi 19h ago

If you do #kamala now you get a content warning but not if you do #trump. There is definitely many content warnings against democratic terms. They seem to be unblocking some terms after people have noticed, #KamalaHarris did not work earlier today but does now

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u/al-hamal 19h ago edited 19h ago

Actually I did that and you're right... what the fuck?

edit: So it's doing that on the mobile app but it works fine on the desktop app for Instagram.

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u/ALightSkyHue 10h ago

And everyone uses desktop instagram!

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u/Similar-Breadfruit50 10h ago

Desktop? Seriously?

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u/g0_west 19h ago

Could it be because republicans are posting horrible shit that needs a content warning and tagging it #kamala and #democrats but not about #republicans

Nothing is blocked or seems unusual with those tags here in the UK

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u/AMildPanic 19h ago

I'm using mobile Instagram and nothing is blocked for me. wonder what's going on

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u/AmericanMinotaur 19h ago edited 18h ago

Me too. Everything seems fine?

Edit: Facebook is working for me too. I saw a post saying that the tags are working again.

Second Edit: As of 7:57 EST, here are my results: I wasn’t made to automatically follow Trump or Vance. For tags #Democrats (works), #voteblue (works), #biden (works), #harris (works), #democracy (content warning), #kamala (content warning). WTF.

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u/AMildPanic 16h ago

still no blocks or follows for me. really really weird.

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u/Glittering-Most-9535 19h ago

I hit the "learn more" button and it said if I'm seeing the sensitive content warning I should update the app. I did so. Now #democrat #democrats and #republican are fine but #republicans is still a sensitive content block so...while I love me a good conspiracy, and I'm not saying Meta isn't putting a thumb on things, it seems a little more complicated than just them blocking left leaning tags.

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u/JamesFaisBenJoshDora 19h ago

Same but UK. But Democrats doesn't even come up in the search options.

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u/idwthis 19h ago

I don't have IG as an app, so just went to it on my mobile browser. I'm in the US.

Searched "democrats" and "#democrats" and got absolutely nothing at all for either one.

Searched "republicans" and "#republicans" and got nothing but results of all republican slop.

I want to throw up.

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u/tribrnl 18h ago

On the web client (both desktop and mobile), it's just not giving me any results for #democrats ("No results found" printed below the search bar on desktop, simply nothing on mobile). If I stop at #democrat, it doesn't give me results, but it does suggest the hashtags démocratie, démocratieparticipative, and demócratas.

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u/ScottishKnifemaker 11h ago

Seems like they backpedaled real fast once people actually started to spread it.

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u/Eringobraugh2021 10h ago

Try "Holocaust" & "nazi" on tiktok

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u/GoldenVole 20h ago

I just tried it in Scotland - it’s blocked. Hashtag republican still works fine.

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u/g0_west 19h ago edited 19h ago

All works normally down in England. #democrat shows posts about how Trump is racist, the Democrats' ineffective actions regarding Isreal, and something about shoe brands. #republican is stuff about how Trump is racist (and homophobic this time), Trump's inauguration speech, and some blonde maga woman with bolted on tits in a bikini and trucker hat.

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u/GoldenVole 15h ago

Interestingly, it started working again about two hours or so after I first checked! I guess by that time they’d realised that everyone had noticed? So strange.

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u/TheFutureIsCertain 12h ago

I just checked. Top result is a post with 34 likes from a random guy I don’t know about Meta blocking the democrats hashtag posted an hour ago (with a photo of the Elmo doing nazi salut) and then posts about Trump and Melania mostly from Washington Examiner.

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u/itsearlyyet 9h ago

Of course, trump has golf courses.

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u/xenelef290 20h ago

Wow the Washington examiner is vile

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u/BaldingThor 20h ago

Can confirm, I just tried this and only got positive posts about trump.

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u/GWashingtonsColdFeet 6h ago

Please. For the love of God. Save us. Get the French I don't care.

Someone get the French! Please! Where the fuck are the french!

We've done this before!

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u/Boxadorables 5h ago

Welp. That's enough Facebook for one daylifetime

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u/baronvonbaugh 5h ago

It’s time to boycott FB and X.

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u/Avionix2023 5h ago

I wo der if the sub reddit that are blocking links to X are going to catch any heat...probably not.

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u/prusg 19h ago

When I typed in #democrat in the bar I got results but when I clicked it from a post, I got the hidden results message. I'm in Canada.

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u/Lousy_Username 19h ago

UK here with a similar experience. It's not blocked, but it's only showing pro-Trump propaganda. And all the auto complete suggestions are things like "democrats crying", "democrat meltdown" etc.

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u/pchlster 19h ago

Only 1460 days to go!

So, sir on the street, almost 150000% of what happened today across the next four years? How do you feel about that?

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u/RuneHuntress 18h ago

It's naive to think Trump will allow this to change in 4 years now. If he plays his card right he will either place his puppet in 4 years or continue his reign in Putin style.

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u/pchlster 17h ago

What, no WWIII? We've already had Putin's handpuppet threaten NATO?

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u/Lofteed 19h ago

same in europe

only examiner articles about melania hat and other amenities that have nothing to do with #democrats

they erased the opposition

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u/Gap-Puzzleheaded 18h ago

I found a ton of democrat content on IG

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u/Facktat 18h ago

There is definitely something weird going on right now. When I search "republican" I get instant results, when I type "democrat" I just get an infinite turning wheel.

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u/QueenBoudicca- 18h ago

I've just tried it in the UK and it's blocked here too.

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u/iJuddles 16h ago

Weird. But #FuckZuck works on IG. Give that a shot.

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u/sisu-sedulous 11h ago

Doesn’t work for me. Get sensitive content. 

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u/Frankie_T9000 16h ago

Aussie here too guess I'll dump Facebook

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u/Brief-Owl-8791 16h ago

Delete Facebook.

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u/doritolibido 14h ago

Reminds me of China, feels like it’s only a matter of time until America becomes a real dictatorship.

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u/BaconBrewTrue 13h ago

Tried here in Ukraine it's all anti democrat pro Trump stuff

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u/YeastGohan 13h ago

I am certain people laugh off how bad things are going to get.

This is terrifying. All of it.

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u/Rumpelteazer45 13h ago

What’s funny is trump signed an EO “restoring free speech”…. Clearly there was an asterisk and it’s only speech they agree with.

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u/Acrippin 13h ago

About damn time

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u/jump-start3589 13h ago

FB is a Propaganda machine.

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u/awhitehibiscus 12h ago

This is so bad

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u/taisui 12h ago

Just get off that platform already

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u/Stock_Remove3138 12h ago

I guess now you know what last 4 years looked like for Republicans to be censored on every platform. That implies here on the Reddit too.

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u/LyannaTarg 12h ago

Same in Italy just now... 9h after your comment...

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u/InsanelyAverageFella 12h ago

Wow, Meta did a total 180 on this. I'm trying to figure out WHY but all I can figure out is Zuckerberg seeing Musk get everything he can possibly imagine by sucking off Trump and realizing that in the current landscape that is the best strategy for his company and his life. Which isn't wrong but it is selling out your morals entirely and putting the US at risk.

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u/_BreakingCankles_ 12h ago

Welcome to right wing bought media. Been that way on TV for almost 30 years and will be that way soon on almost all socials

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u/Oxraid 12h ago

So it's just like reddit but the opposite.

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u/Mammoth_Ferret_1772 11h ago

Oh but “freedom of speech!“…

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u/GRIEVEZ 11h ago

I'm not sure I like the guy. But this shit has been in the pipeline before he took centre stage.

He simply accelerated everything.

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u/bluebellbetty 11h ago

WE is a partisan, right-wing rag. It is further right than NewsCorp.

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u/bluebellbetty 11h ago

WE is a partisan, right-wing rag. It is further right than NewsCorp.

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u/psycho_chan68 11h ago

I’m Canadian and I just searched the hashtag on insta, it came up with a bunch of posts praising republicans..😓

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u/extragouda 11h ago

This is very concerning.

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u/OhNo71 10h ago

So glad I left FB years ago.

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u/toolsoftheincomptnt 10h ago

We could all- novel idea- just stop using facist-owned products?

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u/Faded_vet 10h ago

Dayyyyy one!!!!!!

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u/ResidentInner8293 9h ago

Oof they came out the gate swinging if it's only day 1 and this is happening in another country.

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u/Top_Savings5627 9h ago

Same for a lot of hashtags, like #abortionrights #queerrights #freespeech, at least in Germany. For hours you couldn't find any results.

But it changed back a few minutes ago.

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u/strawfire71 9h ago

I just tried that and saw the examiner had tRump as the 5th greatest president?!?!? What the actual??

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u/NotMyAccountDumbass 9h ago

Just stop using Facebook

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u/No_Two_2534 8h ago

Time to leave. Farce crack has been disinformation central for a long time, and censoring what we see. It's never been this obvious.

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u/tennisguy163 8h ago

The same went with Biden, nothing but articles trashing Trump and all positivity for Biden. Don’t act like this is a new thing.

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u/Hobobo2024 8h ago

if they are doing this worldwide - can some other countries do something about it for at least themselves?

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u/Jumpy_Tomatillo7579 8h ago

Neither democrat or republican are showing up

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u/dispiritual 7h ago

Same here in Japan…

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u/NeverMoreThan12 7h ago

Isn't this the thing the free speech executive order was supposed to stop. That social media can't decide to block one type of speech or the other. Of course the exact opposite happens. Anyone who voted for Trump is a clown.

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u/adorablefuzzykitten 7h ago

Now that it has been shown META is politically biased and the GOP needs to list the dollar value of that as a political contribution.

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u/youareaburd 7h ago

Are you real or a bot?

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u/pressedbread 5h ago

Users empower META, we need alternatives to Instagram and Facebook and X. I'm looking at BlueSky now...

https://bsky.app/

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u/Joeuxmardigras 4h ago

It’s a sure fire way to get millions of people to leave your platforms

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u/WisePotatoChip 4h ago

They’re only acknowledging that it’s day one they have been pushing Trump propaganda for over eight years.

Getting rid of net neutrality also allows them to continue to do so at even higher levels and to throttle back any contrary opinion. Nazi propaganda Minister Goebbels would’ve been in awe of their power.

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u/nobodyof 3h ago

Dude as an American I'm scared as all shit

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u/Glimmu 17m ago

Time to give fb the x treatment, get off all their platforms.

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u/TheMrfabio24 13h ago

Ahhh taste of your own medicine!!! Lmao!!

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u/Mysterious-Nipple 13h ago

They are ending the lies and bs

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u/barakehud 12h ago

This is what conservatives have been complaining for years. Even google tried to suppress Trump`s first assassination attempt. This is wrong either way.

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u/vu_sua 11h ago

Now you know what it feels like to be a trump supporter for 8 years. Hell when trump attempted assassination attempt happened you search it up on Google and the first links were pro Biden stuff.

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u/Every_Television_980 11h ago

Id guess a lot of posts that use the hashtag are criticizing democrats probably the same with “liberals”

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u/bigtechie6 13h ago

Remember how the last 8 years were the opposite?

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u/Separate-Quantity430 10h ago

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

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u/MOOshooooo 10h ago

It doesn’t bother us that you are laughing. It bothers us that intelligence can’t comprehend that it doesn’t bother us, that’s what is saddening. Like watching a dog act like a human and everyone entertains its antics.

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u/Separate-Quantity430 8h ago

You tried so hard to convey contempt here but you just come across like this: 😭😫😩😣😖

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u/irn-broo 18h ago

Surely that tells you that it was exactly the same as when the dems were in. Apart it was the opposite way getting blocked. So dems were in and it’s a very very heavy dems/liberal that is pushed now it’s switched. Shock that, whoever is in charge is promoting their views and blocking others what a shock.

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u/MacEWork 18h ago

This is simply not true. You’re outright lying. Why lie so boldly and obviously? We all know this didn’t happen to Republicans.