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Meta under fire for making users follow Trump and Vance
- ungut 2y ago[flagged]
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- accrual 2y agoThis is extremely chilling. The US government is now in the pocket of a few.
- lern_too_spel 2y agoIt sounds like these people were following #POTUS, and that account changed hands. The article separately mentions a sensitive content censoring issue that was a real problem.
- phyrex 2y agoThat's been resolved
- meiraleal 2y ago“resolved” is a great whitewash. It wasn’t a bug but a “feature“, intentional.
- croes 2y agoThat’s what the article mentions. But it doesn’t explain > However, reports about people not being able to unfollow the accounts is concerning nonetheless.
- thunfischbrot 2y agoTwo persons I know have, on Instagram, blocked the JD Vance accounts yesterday. Today they are automatically following again. This does not seem to be resolved yet.
- a_puppy 2y agoI tried searching for "#democrats" on my own Instagram account, and I can confirm it's returning no results. Meta issued a statement saying this was a bug, and some people are saying it's fixed, but it's still broken for me at the time of posting this comment. My Facebook account is not following Trump or Vance. The article mentioned a theory that some people were following the "POTUS" account, which changed hands; I was never following the "POTUS" account. That seems plausible to me.
- zeeed 2y agoWhy isn’t this higher up on HN? If true that feels like an unprecedented influence over socials
- xx00xxggrr 2y agoPeople should stop using(or get used by rather) these crappy platforms. No access to the source code, hence no accountability.