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Users report pro-Democrat and anti-Republican hashtags blocked, Meta says a fix is incoming (www.neowin.net)

submitted 10 hours ago by MrMakabar to c/pleasantpolitics

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Some Hashtags are:

"#berniesanders"
"#queer"
"#obama"
"#voteblue" (#votered remains unaffected)
"#dnc" (#rnc remains unaffected)
"#fucktrump" (#fuckbiden remains unaffected)
"#democrat" (#republican remains unaffected)
"#kamala"
"#prochoice"
"#constitution"
"#reproductiverights"
"#jan6th"
"#insurrection"
"#14thamendment "
"#republicans" (with an s)
"#fascism"
"#liberal"
"#rightwing"
“#georgeconway”
“#domesticterrorist”
“#jacksmith”
“#drumpf”
“#johnoliver”

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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 45 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Note that if this really is a mistake, it means they're feeding interactions with those hastags through a different system than normal. So yes, you're absolutely being tracked or your algorithm is being modified in some way, there's literally no other possible reason for it.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe 13 points 9 hours ago

Or they're getting ready to block that stuff at the request of our new dictator, and are trying to get ahead of the curve.

And then they oopsed the implementation.

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