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.
YouTube is now showing nothing but (tr)ump stuff....I have not looked at dump stuff on YouTube. It's all positive on him too.
Is this on Shorts or actual videos/suggestions?
Same. I get ads from all kinds of wackos: zionists, creationists, prosperity gospel, etc. The "sponsored" posts are nonstop disinformation.
Yeah the unspecified "issue" is probably that the blocklist was not a shadow ban but blatantly obvious. They probably only unblocked direct searches for these keywords. Wanna bet posts containing any of the listed keywords are still either removed from all other feeds or at least deranked in the great algoritm?
Oligarchs control the network for their benefit. Free and open souce alternatives are the only option.
"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
Interesting. The screenshots shared with me by a friend:
Given the corporate media sane-washing and general kissing of the ring, I choose to believe what has been shared with me directly over the "actchually, it was an awkward gesture of exuberance" milquetoast media.
Especially when the list looks like this:
Hastags that have also apparently been blocked from user experiences. Will keep updating. Range is worldwide.
"#berniesanders"
"#queer"
"#obama"
"#voteblue" (#votered remains unaffected)
"#dnc" (#rnc remains unaffected)
"#fucktrump" (#fuckbiden remains unaffected)
"#democrat" (#republican remains unaffected)
"#kamala"
"#prochoice"
"#constitution"
"#reproductiverights"
"#jan6th"
"#insurrection"
"#14thamendment "
"#republicans" (with an s)
"#fascism"
"#liberal"
"#rightwing"
“#georgeconway”
“#domesticterrorist”
“#jacksmith”
“#drumpf”
“#johnoliver”
That is not a "glitch."
Here, I took this just now: https://i.imgur.com/GoBOPwG.jpeg
Interesting posts being served up:
"This isn't a fight between republican and democrat. It's between communism and freedom."
A map showing Republicans as an overwhelming majority.
Photo about Democrats being more likely to call white people terrorists, while Republicans are more likely to call every other race terrorists.
They're not in the majority, but not subtle enough to avoid worming their way into peoples opinions.
Amazing. /s
The ban list seems a little bit incosistent, but is really obvious on where the bias goes. Not that Instagram were good ever.
Adding republicans to the title would get less clicks though.
Sadly, yes. It's important to know your audience.
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.
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