by AnonHP on 1/21/25, 10:23 AM
I understand that this post is flagged because it can start flame wars and “not curious conversations”, but I’m curious about what people here from different parts of the world are seeing for these search terms. If censorship is indeed happening either due to manual flags or “AI” algorithms, people need to know what’s happening and if this is just anecdotal or geography specific or could be spreading to other countries in other forms for other search words and terms.
I don’t have an Instagram account to verify this myself.
by argsnd on 1/21/25, 9:38 AM
#fuckbiden works, #fucktrump gets censored. They better have a good explanation for why this is a bug.
by NeutralForest on 1/21/25, 9:53 AM
I'm in Europe and I also have the democrat hashtag hidden but not the republican one. Between this and Musk salutes, it's very concerning.
by mjbale116 on 1/21/25, 9:48 AM
- "It violates freedom of speech!"
- "This is a free market; if you do not like it use another platform!"
- "I thought $conglomerate" had our back! They had rainbows and all; is that all it took them to fold"?
- "No, this is not a systemic issue; conversation needs to be steered away from attacking the system and rather its a few bad apples! Go after them and stop asking for systemic changes!"
- "Any attempt at regulating companies in an assault on #freedom and must not be tolerated"
by binarymax on 1/21/25, 9:48 AM
Don’t support meta. Don’t use their products. This has been obvious for so long. Just delete your accounts and move elsewhere.
by mohsen1 on 1/21/25, 9:58 AM
It seems like they quickly resolved it but as people making software we know exactly what happened. The deployment was not successful. Does not make the idea any less ugly. I’m sure they are gonna redeploy a less obvious version
by _DeadFred_ on 1/21/25, 4:59 PM
So Instagram definitely created two segregated lists of hashtags based on politics, and intentionally implemented SOMETHING in the algorithm differently between the two, messed up and revealed that they are trying to do SOMETHING differently between the two. Now that the tags are 'restored' the question is what is Insta actually trying to accomplish behind the scenes?
by octacat on 1/21/25, 9:49 AM
Meta is switching shoes faster than it is stealing features from tiktok.
by vool on 1/21/25, 9:11 AM
This is the Freedom you voted for !
by aussieguy1234 on 1/21/25, 12:21 PM
Last time I checked, I had not moved to China. So why is my internet being censored?
by internet_points on 1/21/25, 9:59 AM
So remember to tag all your political posts #republican from now on.
by BiteCode_dev on 1/21/25, 10:02 AM
This being flagged is interesting in itself.
by theclansman on 1/21/25, 10:59 AM
The whole Zuckerberg pretending to be conservative now that Trump is in power has been hilarious really. Like being in the Joe Rogan show, saying companies need more masculinity or some shit.
How about we don't let private companies do whatever the fuck they want?
by ndsipa_pomu on 1/21/25, 9:44 AM
Seems like several platforms are complying with fascists, so we should definitely be switching to decentralised platforms to communicate safely.
by jampekka on 1/21/25, 9:56 AM
Good that China has caught up US in tech, so at least us Europeans can escape the US oligarchical censorship. Not looking great for those left behind the great firewall of Muskerberg. When will PG fall in line?
by slowmovintarget on 1/21/25, 6:17 PM
This sounds like Zuck didn't understand the whole push-back on censorship from Big Tech. It wasn't about censoring "the other folk" it's about not censoring.
Allow discourse and stop putting your finger on the scale, dammit.
by pjc50 on 1/21/25, 9:44 AM
Well I suppose that was inevitable. You don't have to have state-controlled media when you have a media-controlled state; Meta are simply protecting the investment which got Zuckerberg a seat near Trump at the inauguration.
by Biplityboppity on 1/21/25, 2:22 PM
When the mass deportations start and people are being disappointed into camps, you will not see the video evidence of it go viral.
by Hamuko on 1/21/25, 9:44 AM
What does "don’t CW this" mean?
by ajoseps on 1/21/25, 9:18 AM
yeah i’m also seeing this. It might be a bug but highly suspicious
by silexia on 1/25/25, 9:02 PM
Zuckerberg came out and explicitly said the far left Biden administration censored Facebook directly. That is the real concern, not random silly SEO'd results that will be fixed quickly.
by postepowanieadm on 1/21/25, 9:52 AM
How the turntables.
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on 1/21/25, 9:54 AM
That's not Meta censoring, they just switched from autocratic to democratic (based on user votes) moderation. So enough bots voted to ban that hashtag.