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[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 71 points 4 months ago

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".

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

Roughly a week ago Insta started hitting me hard with right-wing memes and creationist bullshit.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Is this on Shorts or actual videos/suggestions?

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Same. I get ads from all kinds of wackos: zionists, creationists, prosperity gospel, etc. The "sponsored" posts are nonstop disinformation.

[-] Sleepkever@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 61 points 4 months ago

Oligarchs control the network for their benefit. Free and open souce alternatives are the only option.

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 29 points 4 months ago

"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

[-] tekato@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Adding republicans to the title would get less clicks though.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Sadly, yes. It's important to know your audience.

[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

What if it's a bug? Maybe they didn't block it intentionally.

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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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