“If these issues are not resolved quickly they risk fuelling conspiracy theories and damaging Meta’s reputation.”

Meta has a reputation? Surely, that thing was mutilated beyond all recognition a decade ago. And conspiracy theories are Meta’s bread and butter.

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.

There are also limited results when people search for “Republicans” as opposed to “Republican”.

And I’m sure the “free-speech absolutists” were up in arms. /s

TBH, if you’re searching Facebook for information, all you’re gonna get is ragebait anyway, even when it works. Also, why are you still on Facebook?

Is there a list of alternatives we can provide to the old folks to get them off of the nazi apps? (Meta, twitter, instagram, etc)

That’s because Social Media is Bias AGAINST Republicans!