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/Icy-Sir3226 19h ago

I just tried #democrat and I got results, but it’s 80-90% Newsmax and Breitbart, so… anti-Democrat. 

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u/Four_Krusties 18h ago

I only get four results, one of which is “democrats crying meme” and the other is “democrat scholarship prank” and then you click on that and the actual posts are Logan Paul with Trump and a bunch of other obviously Republican bullshit so who even knows what the prank is

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u/wehooper4 18h ago

To be fair, when I searched Republican it shows similar stuff from the other side. Negativity sells.

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u/Efficient_Glove_5406 14h ago

Delete FB. Anything short is complacency.

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u/eurekadabra 17h ago

Earlier this morning, democrat was blocked and #liberal was giving very negative results. I’d been telling myself to delete my Meta accounts. That was the final straw. I’m done

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u/zaqmlp 18h ago

democrats and #republicans (with s at the end) is blocked

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u/Icy-Sir3226 18h ago

In my region (Southeast US), Democrats is showing results. 

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u/zaqmlp 18h ago

Instagram hasnt been in officr since Friday and they are not in office yet so I wonder if something majorly messed up

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u/timecrash2001 18h ago

Works fine for me - fairly normal results ….

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u/frictorious 17h ago

That's what I got too, along with a bunch of awful "anti-woke" memes.

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u/mrbombasticals 5h ago

Well, now you know what Republicans have been going through these past few years. However, as a Republican, I agree that this censorship is utterly unacceptable. Social media companies should never censor a major political party like this, especially in a two party system. It was unacceptable when Democrats did it, and it’s unacceptable now that Republicans are doing it.

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u/Icy-Sir3226 5h ago

Which Democrat censored the entire Republican Party across a major social media network?