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by chriswarbo 514 days ago
"Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o

> 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.

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This is really obviously not intentional, let alone requested by the Trump admin.
Definitely curious to see how long it takes to get fixed, now that it has gotten media attention.