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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Wilf
in reply to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 • • •tested with my partner, same results, in Quebec, Canada.
@sexedforbiguys @ragabash
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
in reply to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 • • •🚨 to Canadian journalists. Multiple confirmations of this manipulation of search results on Instagram in favour of democrats in the thread below.
@akurjata
@davidakin
@pennydaflos
#Republican #Democrat
Chuck Darwin
in reply to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 • • •I confirmed this as well...
#Instagram is giving "content warning" for #democrat
But shows pages of hits for #republican
Mike Johnston
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •Chuck Darwin reshared this.
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
in reply to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 • • •PS: this is why Bluesky is not a sufficient alternative at this time.
James Richardson
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
Paul Chambers🚧
in reply to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 • • •Virginia Holloway
in reply to Paul Chambers🚧 • • •@paul
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.
jcrabapple
in reply to Virginia Holloway • • •Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith
in reply to jcrabapple • • •Jules
in reply to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 • • •Tansy Hoskins 🍉 🍉
in reply to Jules • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Tansy Hoskins 🍉 🍉 • • •Jules
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'
Tom Gerken (BBC News)Aral Balkan
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