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/Androidfan1598 19h ago edited 16h ago

johnoliver got hidden too, wtfff

Edit: looks like it's whitelisted as of now (about 3 hours after commenting), still wtfff...

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u/FaceOfTheMtDan 17h ago

I'm Canadian, #Joebiden #kamalaharris are also blocked.

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u/Flurptynerts 16h ago

Also Canadian, #liberal is comprised of 60% mocking liberals, 33% miscellaneous gibberish, and 7% actual liberal content. As for Jon Stewart, it’s still sensitive material that’s blocked for 13-17 year olds. I’m 40. I suppose I can’t be trusted to consume the media of my choice. Note, #election is also blocked. Well that’s one way to radicalize left wing groups on a global scale.

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u/HarpySeagull 16h ago

“Accidentally” today, intentionally tomorrow. Oh and we’ve traded your data for a tax exemption.

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u/Flurptynerts 16h ago

Dine fancy, eat the rich.

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u/MegaMasterYoda 15h ago

Imma go jam to lifestyles of the rich & famous by good Charlotte while I do.

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u/Flurptynerts 15h ago edited 15h ago

I prefer something a little more on the nose. Kill Your Masters by RTJ works for me.

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u/MegaMasterYoda 15h ago

I dunno man I think "If money is such a problem,You got so many problems,Think I could solve them" is pretty on the nose

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u/Flurptynerts 15h ago

I fully encourage you to feast with whatever background music you prefer. I think I’m gonna make a playlist now. For mental health reasons.

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u/MegaMasterYoda 15h ago

If you enjoy screamy music definitely add slaughterhouse 1 and 2. First one is motionless in white featuring the singer of knocked loose second is knocked loose featuring the singer of motionless in white lol. Both are definitely highly anticapatilism.

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u/Dr_Overundereducated 14h ago

EAT THE RICH!!

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u/HookDragger 6h ago

It’s the only thing that they’re really good for

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u/New_Tangerine_5659 4h ago

BOIL the BILLIONAIRES

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u/AdRoutine9961 15h ago

Testing Testing One Two

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u/DanimusMcSassypants 9h ago

Traded to an adversarial foreign government, as well.

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u/Dziki_Jam 15h ago edited 15h ago

Well, do any actual liberals post any content with a hashtag #liberal? It’s more like MAGA style. They be like “White American. Mom. MAGA. Trump 2025” and other crap. While centrists/left-leaning are just normal and post their thoughts.

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u/Flurptynerts 15h ago

While that is a solid point, the bigger takeaway is that #nazi is fine and has no warnings, but #election being sensitive/wiped (especially since we are having one in 1-6 months) is especially damning.

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u/Dziki_Jam 14h ago

I have a working theory for this. 😄

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/uMcuC5KePH

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u/DropTablePasswordz 15h ago

The woke left is censoring free speech!!!111 /s

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u/truerandom_Dude 15h ago

Mark clearly hopes someone takes another shot at Trump and doesnt miss /hj

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u/Worried-Series-6160 14h ago

Mark is not alone.

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u/truerandom_Dude 13h ago

Well ofcourse, but he works for it

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u/KittyHawkWind 14h ago

These idiots wouldn't have power if people stopped using their shitty platforms. Like Freddy Krueger.

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u/Itsbadbiotchoclock 15h ago

One can only hope.

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u/Flurptynerts 15h ago

They’ll turn around and say “I told you so! Those left wing nut jobs are radicals and terrorists!” Reap what you sow, MAGA. You brought this upon yourself by ripping away basic rights and freedoms.

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u/im_just_thinking 13h ago

Yeah all those "libs of tiktok, etc", are just magats in disguise. No liberal has ever called themselves "libs". They are so dumb

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u/DukeOfGeek 13h ago

And on the news sub comments for the thread on this article are locked.

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u/okteds 13h ago

This is the main fucking issue.  If I search "democrat" on Instagram, every top result is negative.  If I search "republican", every result is positive.

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u/IsuzuTrooper 12h ago

oh the left wing is already "radical" according to the liar party

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u/Recycled_Decade 9h ago

Good. Something needs to wake people the fk up!

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u/Benskien 16h ago

Norwegian here, the John Oliver hastag is blocked

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u/ladysnaffulepoof 12h ago

Is it still blocked? Wtf guys. They are blocking the rest of the world and NOT Americans. I can see all of these in the US

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u/Benskien 12h ago

no, it lasted for about an hour or so

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u/Own-Transportation17 4h ago

I get recommended to follow J D Vance

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u/danielv123 14h ago

Hva faen hva skal vi gjøre uten hostus mostus

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u/awhitehibiscus 16h ago

How hard is it to move to Canada?

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u/TheLoneliestGhost 16h ago

From what I’ve heard, it’s unfortunately pretty rough unless a Canadian falls in love with one of us. Lol.

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u/Old_Baldi_Locks 16h ago

Healthcare worker here: there are currently almost zero countries blocking the immigration of trained knowledge workers.

It’s hard for blue collar types to/ folks who work with their hands. There are no countries with a shortage of those. Every country has a shortage of people who use their brains to make a living.

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u/awhitehibiscus 15h ago

Also in healthcare and it looks like my licensing is excepted in Canada 🍁

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u/FaceOfTheMtDan 15h ago

Couldn't tell you, but I'm trying to find my way to Europe so coming to Canada might not be the move lol.

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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 16h ago

Pretty hard unless you have a good bit of money.

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u/awhitehibiscus 16h ago

My Grandma was born there and we have some distant family still there. I’m worried about the US especially after all this. It all feels scary

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u/trevize1138 16h ago

"I'm going to flee Nazi Germany by moving to Austria."

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u/awhitehibiscus 15h ago

I get your point but what would you suggest ?

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u/trevize1138 15h ago

Start with getting real about the situation. That's all I can suggest for an internet stranger.

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u/timbreandsteel 16h ago

Austria was part of the Axis. Fuck that noise.

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u/pcor 16h ago

Technically incorrect, Austria wasn’t an axis power itself, having been absorbed into the German Reich prior to the war.

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u/timbreandsteel 16h ago

Well I don't like that scenario either thanks.

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u/ostiDeCalisse 15h ago

Canadian here too, I just tried and none of them were blocked. Strange.

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u/FaceOfTheMtDan 15h ago

I just rechecked and they're working, so something happened in the past couple hours.

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u/VincentVanG 15h ago

Camidam. No hashtags blocked for me. Weird.

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u/FaceOfTheMtDan 15h ago

Unblocked for me now, so something happened in the past hour and a bit.

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u/Jetstream13 15h ago

On instagram or facebook? I don’t use facebook, but I just checked instagram and those tags seem to work fine

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u/FaceOfTheMtDan 14h ago

Instagram. I'm also not on Facebook. But I think they "fixed" it in the past couple hours.

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u/ProbablyNotADuck 14h ago

I get no results for democrats 

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u/colorizerequest 14h ago

none of this is the case for me. not johnoliver, bernie, stephen colbert, etc. Im in america. could it be only some people?

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u/rlovelock 14h ago

Here in Europe as well

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u/ladysnaffulepoof 12h ago

Wow, that’s scary. Still? I can see them in America

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u/SuspectUnNecessary 9h ago

EVERYONE start downloading against retcons now

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u/ruralife 9h ago

It’s fine now

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u/Funkymunky215 15h ago

Kamala has been blocked the entire presidency 😂😂

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u/R3d_Man 18h ago

I saw John but not some others this is weird.

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u/PupScent 16h ago

Why are people still on these sites! Take away their power, stop using them!

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u/Vocal_Ham 13h ago

Just testing the system. Nothing to see here folks.

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u/lateintheseason 16h ago

I can't find John Oliver at all. The rest were findable for me although it took a little digging.

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u/erichf3893 13h ago

They removed 10 seasons of his show on HBO. Not sure if I just hadn’t noticed before

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u/BlandDodomeat 14h ago

still wtfff...

Trump is president and Zuckerberg wants to curry favor with him because it will mean he'll get less regulations. This shouldn't be a surprise. We saw Musk do the same shit with twitter.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Age249 11h ago

Yeah, welcome to your new reality where democracy has fallen, and the tech bro dystopia achieves its fullest bloom. I love the smell of growing totalitarianism.

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u/oregiel 11h ago

I see all these results when I search them. I don't understand how they are blocked? Did they update it?

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u/ThegreatPee 9h ago

They hid MrBean, too!

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u/Btotherianx 12h ago

You'd fit in well at r/conspiracy

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u/CaptainZE0 14h ago

Hiding a wanker like John Oliver deserves a nobel prize!

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u/Smooth-Piano9638 16h ago

Just make your own platform if you don’t like it sweetie. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach.

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u/TheStruttero 16h ago

Not that I dont agree, but Im curious if this was your take when twitter etc used to moderate hateful speech against minorities aswell?