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"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?

I look forward to Republicans in the House holding hearings to get to the bottom of this. Because Republicans held hearings when they accused social media of censoring conservative opinions. Because Republicans care about free speech. And even though this effects free speech of the other party, Republicans still care about free speech, right? Republicans will hold social media companies accountable for any censorship of political speech, right? Guys? There are going to be hearings right? Well, at least if not journalists are going to press those committee members about the inconsistency, right? Journalists will surely do their jobs. Right guys?

It's an error, I'm sure. They will just change the algorithm in the background, nothing so blatant as this.

Meta says its working urgently to fix a problem

WTF BBC

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Wild how they turned one of the most wholesome social networks (as wholesome as social media can be) into just another politics filled hole.

Well it’s been quick to start the limitation of options… not their first rodeo it seems.

Is there a list of alternatives we can provide to the old folks to get them off of the nazi apps? (Meta, twitter, instagram, etc)

My conspiracy theory here is that the person tasked with implementing The new policy filters Was either pissed off and or lazy And just use the most obvious filter they could come up with

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

That's because Social Media is Bias AGAINST Republicans!

They found out. Quickly half fix it for a little while

the same platform that is home to (going worse) 9/11, racism, antisemitism, sexism, edge lord neo-nazism and worst of all homophobia/transphobia

Playing devil's advocate, could it have been used to avoid persecution of these people now that the Emperor has returned and the crazies think they have mandate to "hunt"? There's a non negligible chance that whoever decided this, lives in California, and thinks of themselves as quite liberal, they're just too greedy to quit the job at Meta because that 6-7 figure income is worth it even when it means being complicit to the 4th Reich.

We need a different party on the left anyway.