“Instagram blocked searches related to a number of political hashtags, including #democrats, #democrat, #jan6th, #republicans and a number of other terms Tuesday.”
It’s not just democrat
My wife just checked. Its now showing some pretty heinous things on the demo crat side…I dont think prior to the election that would have been tolerated. They definitely changed the “algorithm”.
Roughly a week ago Insta started hitting me hard with right-wing memes and creationist bullshit.
Free speech my ass.
Thankfully the fediverse is tolerant of people with descenting opinions.
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Oligarchs control the network for their benefit. Free and open souce alternatives are the only option.
What if it’s a bug? Maybe they didn’t block it intentionally.
Even if it was, the timing is odd isn’t it ? I don’t recall hearing about „bugs“ like this before.
