Don’t CW this.

Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:

@chris I’m personally unable to reproduce this in Canada.

Still troubling.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@EdwinG interesting. The overall consensus, from what is now thousands of people just seeing this post, is that there are definitely words being filtered in a politically inconsistent way

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@praesolgka true.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@panmanphil interesting. You are the second person in the last hour to be successful. Has a change occurred?

Peter G

@chris
Just searched on Insta. Works for me:

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@platypus thanks Ruth.
My point in aasking this to not be CW’ed was in order to have maximum coverage because of the extreme and fundamental importance of the message. It is no longer an exaggeration to say we are witnessing an authoritarian regime in the United States flexing hyper political control of the media landscape. People need to know.

Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

@chris Buddy, I live in the US. My body is affected by the laws. My family's trans and queer members are affected by the laws. I have to live every damn day here.

Please work on your main character syndrome and pause before posting to ask yourself whether you are posting the One True Post that has to be broadcast as far as possible and whether it could still get significant reach because of its importance...

... with a well-written CW.

🇵🇸 Amanda

@chris @terra For an additional data point, I’m in the US and was able to see results. But dang this is important to call out, thank you.

And yes this is beyond #USPol, the world is affected by the fact that mainstream social media platforms are under a fashy regime.

Christopher Griffiths

@chris Interesting. I just tried it and both worked for me. I wonder if they changed something since yesterday or if something else is occurring. Either way, I do plan to move on from Instragram and Facebook soon.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@platypus fair enough. Thanks Ruth.

J.I. Vicuña

@chris Saw that in Chile. Has been “fixed” (but the Dem hashtag is full-on MAGA)

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@cjgyt just in the past hour or two it seems something has changed and results are beginning to be seen at least in the USA.

Kat O’Brien

@blag @chris I got the exact opposite! Also in Spain.

CautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🕎

@chris Not arguing, just trying to get some clarification, I’m getting some conflicting reports from Canadian/UK users. Do you know if your wife was on a VPN at the time, or was she exiting a US endpoint?

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ETA - never mind. If there was a difference it was only a matter of rollout.

Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'

Meta says it is working quickly to resolve the problem, which has prompted accusations of bias on social media.

BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

annaf

@chris I can see results for both hashtags in the UK

MarkS

@chris

I thought that sounded crazy, and then I looked for the #Democrat tag on Instagram. It's been completely suppressed.

If you look for the #Republican tag, you'll see several thousand entries.

Try it for yourself. https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@annaf I would recommend checking with others. There seems to be more people reporting that it is working properly now. But still lots with the same problem. So it may be evolving.

Christopher Griffiths

@chris It just goes to show how little anyone should trust Meta.

I was hanging out with my partner’s daughter yesterday. She spent a bit of time flicking through reels and I was dismayed that several were pretty anti-trans coded. I had a chat with my partner, who said she noticed the same thing and was trying to encourage her daughter to reset her algorithm. I both fear the rabbit hole ahead if she doesn’t and the likelihood she’ll just keep seeing that kind of shit even if she does.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@Caution thank you for the BBC article! That is the first media report I have seen confirming.

Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'

Meta says it is working quickly to resolve the problem, which has prompted accusations of bias on social media.

(www.bbc.com)

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@markstahl I can’t without an account.