Mildly Infuriating

Running Shortlist includes blocking hashtags for:

democrat (but not republican)

voteblue (but not votered)

presidentbiden (but not president harris)

kamala

liberal

liberals

leftist

leftists

barackobama (but not presidentobama)

obama (but not obamas)

berniesanders

votebiden (votekamala, votetrump works tho)

democracy (WOW)

presidentcarter

fuckputin

makeamericasmartagain

libertarian (for some reason)

igcensorship

factsoverfiction

fuckdemocrats

fuckrepublicans

bluewave (redwave still works, shocker)

politicalleft (blocked, but politicalright isn't)

fascism

fascist

antifascism

prochoice

This is not mildly infuriating. Its incredibly worrying.

Meta says its working urgently to fix a problem with Instagram which results in a "results hidden" message when users search for the terms "Democrat" or "Democrats".

If that's hard to fix, I recommend shutting down the servers forever.

Time in USA: 1935, Germany

I'm not sure how many years of headlines you all need before you just stop using these services. You already know they artificially lower your engagement, so you're just literally wasting your time at this point. (If you're not a fascist, that is.)

Just testing the new Great American Firewall!

What was that story warning people that if they use RedNote they'll experience 'Chinese style censorship' for the first time?

US using the old if you can't beat em approach

What's a two party state that's one party down?

German news magazine Der Spiegel wrote they had talked to a Meta representative and they said "This is definitely an error and we will fix it fast"

My personal take: An incident like this illustrates how vulnerable we are to being censored and silenced when using social media and communication channels owned by billionaires. It's time not only to leave those platforms but to educate your friends and family why this is absolutely necessary. No more excuses.

Original: Update, 13.30 Uhr: Auf SPIEGEL-Anfrage hat sich Meta inzwischen kurz und knapp zu dem Phänomen geäußert. »Dies ist eindeutig ein Fehler, den wir schnell beheben werden«, so eine Sprecherin des Konzerns.

I dont even know how to react to this. It feels like my reaction to everything has been holy shit this is fucking insane. I'm burnt out, I just need to tend to my own garden. I cant have sympathy for people who support the right and these stupid social media platforms.

Don't worry! Free Speech Republicans AGAINST Censorship will be FURIOUS when they hear about this!

Just tried it. It works fine. Granted, most results are from fascist accounts, but it does work

Looks like Zuckerberg needs a "red shell"..

Nah. I'll die on that particular hill.

I thought they were gonna promote more political content

Maybe this will hopefully get people to stop using the garbage platform that enabled Trump and aided a literal genocide because they didn't hire anyone fluent in the language of the people being exterminated.

I can't wait for the day Zuckerberg loses all his money and dies alone because he alienated himself from anyone who cared about him.

Benito Mussolini is often attributed with the quote: “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

No one can argue the US isn't corporatist.

"Fact checkers are politically sided"

The Product Manager made the mistake of having the keyword be overtly banned by the SWEs.

What was intended was an algorithmic change to hide the content entirely and divert to "acceptable" topics while obfuscating the ban.

It will be corrected shortly.

Is this true? Can anyone confirm this?

Blocking hashtags while pretending to be more free speech.

I hope meta goes down in flames

Every day is a day closer to the electorate realizing certain luxuries have been removed from their cages. Here's hoping it's sooner rather than later. And don't be pathetic and turn to the democrats to help you. They were bought and paid for and will be lucky not to be disappeared.

Confirming this was the last straw and the moment I uninstalled all meta apps

The USA becoming a one-party nation in real time