Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'

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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".

Some social media users have accused the company of political bias, pointing out the issue has been occurring after President Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, which was attended by Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg.

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.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o

WTF? They really think they can tune out everyone who doesn't worship to the con artist?

[Wingus Dingus]

1. Shot across the bow. You will see what that stupid fuck Zuck wants you to see from now on.

[BoRaGard]

7. Zuck bows down to the G.O.P.'s beloved Mammon

[dalton99a]

2. "Technical problem"? Zuckerberg is a lying piece of shit.

[DeepWinter]

3. might be a hoax

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219928460

I just searched and had no problems at all.

[Wingus Dingus]

5. It's not a hoax. I tried it.

If you type Democrats into search, ignoring the pre-supplied hashtag links, it says no results on my screen. I tried it twice. Then I tried Republican, same way, and results came up.

[EdmondDantes_]

9. It's definitely hit or miss

I was also able to search the hashtag earlier and again right now.

[Happy Hoosier]

4. I'm not seeing that....

Of course a lot of stuff on the #democrats tag is vile bullshit....

[Jarqui]

6. I posted a reply on X to an Alexander Vindman tweet

Basically thanking him for his service and expressing concern for what Trump would do to the country.

Vindman's tweet got 1.3 Mil reads. My reply not long after he tweeted got 6 reads. (they had been doing this to my tweets since during the election).

There's no 1st amendment any more. They're filtering out what they don't want people to see or know.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. Musk admitted he was throttling pro Biden content

And amplifying anti Biden and Pro Trump content. People fail to realize that that is extremely powerful censorship. If you can take a message and make sure it gets seen by 50 million people if you like it, and by only 5000 people if you don't like it, you've just exercised a terrible power.

[Wingus Dingus]

10. What's amazing is how many people still used the service after that.

Should have been a mass quit.

[Jarqui]

12. I went after Musk so I got targeted

He was spewing crap that wasn't accurate it true and I called him out.

First, he got chummy. He had a bunch of Elon Musk handles following me.
Then he tried to invite me to participate in something.
I ignored him and/or told him to screw off.
From then on, my tweets got a single digit handful of reads - some of them me checking if they had been read.
My social media campaign to fight for Biden ended in early September.

So the country voted on Musk/Republicans siphoning Democrat rebuttal off their social media platforms and promoting Republican lies.

How can Democrats ever combat that? The oligarchs are in control of the media.

[Johnny2X2X]

13. I noticed it with official government Tweets

Pre Musk, Biden's Presidential Tweets would get millions of views and Retweets. Post Trump, some would get just a couple thousand. It was blatantly obvious.

Sounds like Meta was in on getting Trump elected too.

A friend, who is a Conservative Biden and Harris voter, was teeling me about his 20 something kids. They all thought Harris was stupid and an extremist, he was surprised and they told him of the stuff they've seen on social media. He asks to be shown and they showed him videos of her that were edited to make her look comically dimwitted or pushing some extreme idea.

This is an absolute power that was unleashed on the public and there's no way to fight it right now, at least without a willing Congress.

[EllieBC]

11. Check your accounts. You might be following, unbeknownst toyou, Vance or Trump..

Friend of mine said that she was hearing people saying that they were suddenly following both Trump and Vance or one of them on Facebook or Instagram where they never had before. Now on Facebook it’s not a friend it’s a follow. But check it because apparently Zuckerberg is forcing people to follow them.

I was following Vance. I don’t even know when something like that would’ve happened when I haven’t used my Facebook in about a year. So I blocked them both.

[LeftInTX]

15. That's because they're following the POTUS and VP pages.

Those pages were changed to Trump and Vance yesterday.

[Sundance1220]

14. I don't seem to be having that problem

But I don't use instagram for politics (only to keep up with family and friends). I did a search for democrats and an endless stream of links came up.