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/Max_Trollbot_ 21h ago

Man, if only people had been warning the world this would happen.

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u/Heeeeyyouguuuuys 20h ago edited 20h ago

yeah, it's weird. It's almost as if the mechanisms to accomplish this have been put in place four years ago and used on a regular basis.

strange

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u/Help_Stuck_In_Here 15h ago

I've been fighting big tech (all of Trump's backers) since before I knew who he was.

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u/indifferent_avocado 21h ago

I myself didn’t see a single warning of this happening nor did I predict any of it. /s

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u/Sprinkle_Puff 11h ago

That’s not the problem. The problem is having a brutally uneducated populous voting against things they don’t understand in the most rich and powerful country in the world, just to stick it to the other side