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Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats' (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

"If these issues are not resolved quickly they risk fuelling conspiracy theories and damaging Meta's reputation."

Meta has a reputation? Surely, that thing was mutilated beyond all recognition a decade ago. And conspiracy theories are Meta's bread and butter.

While users who type "#Democrat" or "#Democrats" see no results, the hashtag "Republican" returns 3.3 million posts on the social media platform.

By manually searching Instagram for "Democrats", rather than clicking on a hashtag, users are greeted by a screen reading "we've hidden these results".

"Results for the term you searched for may contain sensitive content," it says.

There are also limited results when people search for "Republicans" as opposed to "Republican".

And I'm sure the "free-speech absolutists" were up in arms. /s

TBH, if you're searching Facebook for information, all you're gonna get is ragebait anyway, even when it works. Also, why are you still on Facebook?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

They say "resolved quickly" as if it was an error and not something intended.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 20 hours ago

the error was that it didn't show the curated results they intended and instead showed nothing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

Normally I'd apply Hanlon's Razor and give the benefit of the doubt, but Meta lost the right to charitability long ago and deserves no such kindness or respect until they have a long pattern of acting in the public's interests.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Likely they were training their AI to lean right and it went nuts. No human would be dumb enough to sign off on something that blatant.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

You haven't met many humans, have you?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

Zuck is just following the orders he got at Mar-a-Lago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

I think "explicitly allowing hate speech with examples" has done most of the recent damage to whatever their "reputation" is at this point.

Them actively suppressing non-fashy political views is basically expected.