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Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for
Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for
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Running Shortlist includes blocking hashtags for:
democrat (but not republican)
voteblue (but not votered)
presidentbiden (but not president harris)
kamala
liberal
liberals
leftist
leftists
barackobama (but not presidentobama)
obama (but not obamas)
berniesanders
votebiden (votekamala, votetrump works tho)
democracy (WOW)
presidentcarter
fuckputin
makeamericasmartagain
libertarian (for some reason)
igcensorship
factsoverfiction
fuckdemocrats
fuckrepublicans
bluewave (redwave still works, shocker)
politicalleft (blocked, but politicalright isn't)
fascism
fascist
antifascism
prochoice
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From Germany: about half of these still work for me. But only half.
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Some have started working for me again, #democrat works again, but not #prochoice #kamala or #fuckputin
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Me too, I tried just a few. On pc #antifascist , #fascist and #democracy didn't work. On a mobile phone from my colleague #democracy worked though.
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Well fuck.
presidentbiden (but not president harris)
barackobama (but not presidentobama)
votebiden (votekamala, votetrump works tho)
presidentcarter
libertarian (for some reason)
These are some odd censorship choices. In America, libertarian is short for (not really anarcho) anarcho-capitalist and they tend to vote right wing. They’re the tea party essentially and trumps election is a culmination of the tea party’s power. I consider myself a left libertarian / anarcho-communist but we are not that common in America. Unfortunately.
And why censor Carter? He’s dead. And why biden but not Harris? So odd.
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igcensorship
This one's funny. I wonder if they'll go recursive and add "igcensorshipcensorship" next.
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What app are you searching for hashtags in? Is that facebook?
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This is my instagram, I deleted facebook
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This is what comes up in my instagram for the same search.
Can you post the entire screenshot? How do we know you didn’t just photoshop that?
Why would this work for me but not for you? Do you think you specifically are being targeted with results blocking? How do you account for this?
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I don't see how the entire screenshot would be any harder to photoshop. But you can look through this thread and find multiple different people confirming it on their ends too.
I see you've already seen that one, but the point is multiple people are having different results. Unless you think like 10 different people are independently lying about it.
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There are articles about it
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1i6h5h2/instagram_has_begun_censoring_hashtags_related_to/
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A Reddit post is not an article.
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The Reddit post directly links to an article. It's not in English though.
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Why not link directly to the article then instead of a Reddit post that links to an article?
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Because the article isn't in English, here is a English one https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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Good question, linking the article directly definitely would have been better. I'm not the OP if you didn't notice, I just saw the article link.
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Because the article isn't in English.
Here is a English one https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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There are articles about Bigfoot
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10 people is hard to coordinate, but I’ve only seen two people: OP and one other account (probably the one you linked to).
I think more readers need to try this themselves. Go to the Instagram app, search
#Democrator#democrat, and post the screenshot here.-
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Works for me still. I wonder if they're staggering things
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My guess is its dynamic filtering, where the content it brings up is triggering filters. So depending on geolocation, 'for you' styling, etc, it is blocked or not, same with the other terms. Why this is happening, is the real question, what is triggering that 'sensitive' filter? What did they change, or what changed about the posts that flagged it?
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They reversed it when it started making the front page of reddit etc.
It works again for me now, they'll just shadow ban it now.
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https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
There are many articles about this, it's also on the front page of reddit with hundreds of people confirming it
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