I think the point is less about the technical acumen of a given candidate and what their tech team may or may not have done. It's about that the result of what

I think the point is less about the technical acumen of a given candidate and what their tech team may or may not have done. It's about that the result of what probably was an innocent mistake is a deep-state conspiracy theory being pushed as a huge censorship narrative. The situation itself seems stupidly simple to me and I would concur the likeliest explanation is someone just made a mistake. But the questions I have are: 1. How did the candidate notice that their site was not being indexed/shown? 2. What did they check once they realized it? Did they ask the team behind the site or anyone how this might happen? 3. If the candidate did, what did the team respond? What investigation was done? 4. What specific elements led to the conclusion of "Deep State Algorithm"? What specifically brought about this as a conclusion to publicly post about? It's possible the candidate was misled and told "everything was fine" from the site side, but I guess for me it's still a huge leap to go from "Everything with the site is fine but it's not showing in searches" to "there is a conspiracy to censor what I am saying". It's not about what technology _might_ exist to accomplish such a thing, it's about what was actually checked and done before this conclusion was reached. That a conspiracy theory was the only promoted conclusion from the candidate is the frustrating part for me, as checking their other tweets and publications, there's no indication anything else was considered. The article itself is being catty and while it's funny to think it's just a case of a politician staging outrage, the core problem I have still exists even if I assume completely benign actors leading up to the tweet.