Running Shortlist includes blocking hashtags for:
democrat (but not republican)
voteblue (but not votered)
presidentbiden (but not president harris)
kamala
liberal
liberals
leftist
leftists
barackobama (but not presidentobama)
obama (but not obamas)
berniesanders
votebiden (votekamala, votetrump works tho)
democracy (WOW)
presidentcarter
fuckputin
makeamericasmartagain
libertarian (for some reason)
igcensorship
factsoverfiction
fuckdemocrats
fuckrepublicans
bluewave (redwave still works, shocker)
politicalleft (blocked, but politicalright isn’t)
fascism
fascist
antifascism
prochoice
Note: some of these like #democrat I can search again.
Might want to double check these. I know for certain that this morning #democrats was blocked but now it’s not - and I tried your list up until #liberal and it all worked
There are two user filters in the settings which default to the stricter hiding. Politics and sensitive content.
Some of these might be under either of those filters and even with both set to show content some of these are hidden.
Which is default? Strict?
That’s what matters because it’s what 95% of people are using.
anyone who complains get the less strict one /s
Didn’t know that was an option (not a big IG user) but I checked and I have no filters so that makes sense.
#democrats was DEFINITELY blocked for me an hour and a half ago
This sounds like what they’d do…
Put everything “good” under “sensitive content” so kids and people who don’t know better leave that stuff hidden because when blatant racism, bigotry, and fascism doesn’t fall under “sensitive content” people will assume that shit is really really fucked up and and keep it hidden.
These asshats are gonna fuck around and get banned everywhere except America and then Americans will flock to other countries social media because normal people don’t want to hang out in a Nazi clubhouse
I read they’re keeping this out of other countries (for now). Even fact checking is still enabled.
There are filtered results outside of the US
Must just be the fact checking then (or so they claimed, anyhow).
The fact that they were blocked (even temporarily) is bad enough, even if they unblocked them because people noticed too fast.
I’m sure they’ll continue working on more subtle ways to suppress discussions and control narrative.
I agree, I just don’t want any misinformation coming from our side