Don’t CW this. I beg you.
My wife is on Instagram. She just did this.
She heard there was weird stuff happening. She searched “#Republican” and “#Democrat”.
She had to do it herself to see if it was true.
It is.
She is beside herself.
This is the 2025 version of marching into CNN and telling them to broadcast only his stuff.
This is him taking over the NYT.
This is new age Oligarchy. This is Authoritarianism. This is Fascism2025.
Edit: we’re in Canada, so this is worldwide? Or NA?
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in reply to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 • • •🚨 to Canadian journalists. Multiple confirmations of this manipulation of search results on Instagram in favour of republicans in the thread above.
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#Republican #Democrat
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in reply to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 • • •While I was not able to replicate that screen exactly (I refuse to put that mobile app on my phone) I did try this in the Web App on my phone and on the Desktop.
Certainly seems sus'
#republican #democrat #instagram #censorship #zuckerberg #zuck
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So, yeah. I tried it on a browser. Lots of hashtag republican content, nothing for hashtag democrat. If you search without the hashtag on "democrat" you get content, but most of it is from Newsmax (which is to the right of Fox News) talking about how corrupt the democrats are.
So there seem to be legitimacy to this.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'
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