Instagram And TikTok BUSTED Hiding Liberal Content While Promoting Trump

A not-so-subtle “glitch” happened across social media platforms owned by Trump allies this week when both Meta’s Instagram and TikTok were found to be censoring content that was pro-Democrat or anti-Trump. Instagram was blocking posts that contained the hashtag #Democrats, while TikTok was stifling searches for Democrats and boosting pro-Trump content into feeds that had never received it before. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.   Link – https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o   Link - https://www.latintimes.com/anti-trump-searches-appear-hidden-tiktok-after-app-comes-back-online-tiktok-now-trumps-572903 Subscribe to stay connected to our stories: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Support us by becoming a member on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Or Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Buy Ring of Fire merch: https://www.buyrof.com/ Find us on social media! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ringoffiremedia *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Both Instagram and TikTok have been busted this week, censoring liberal content while promoting conservative content, and they did it in some not so subtle ways. However, both platforms, and it's important to point this out. Both platforms claim that this was just a big oops moment. None of it was intentional, but it sure as hell seems intentional considering the fact that the owners of TikTok were hanging out with Donald Trump on Sunday, and then Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Instagram, was uh, hanging out with Donald Trump on Monday. You know, just totally a coincidence that right after all these groups were hanging out with Trump, their prospective platforms decided to start basically shadow banning any content dealing with Democrats while forcing people to follow Donald Trump and JD Vance. Let me read you this from the BBC, 'cause God forbid, American media outlets report on this, right? Has to come from the foreign sources. Users who type hashtag Democrat or hashtag 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. So you look for Democrat or Democrats. Nope, we've literally hidden the results. It said you search for Republicans instead of Republican. Then it's like, eh, we give you some, but maybe not all, but clearly a glitch that for some reason primarily only affects people on the left because you know, that's, that's how computer glitches work, right? They they single out a specific group of people and only affect those people. No, I don't buy that for a second and neither should you because that is one of the dumbest excuses we have ever heard. That's not how glitches work. So somebody somewhere did something and you got busted for it. In terms of TikTok searches for anti-Trump content. This by the way, is from the Latin Times. Searches for anti-Trump content are now appearing hidden on TikTok for many users. After the app came back online in the us, TikTok users have taken to X to share that. When they search for topics negatively related to President Donald Trump, a message pops up saying no results found, and that the phrases may violate the app's guidelines. One user said that when they tried to search Donald Trump rigged election on a US account, they were met with blocked results. Meanwhile, the same phrase, search from a UK account prompted results. Users shared that searches for the same content that contained spelling errors would result in the content being shared with us users. In one video of a user sharing searches for different hashtags, Biden was allowed, but Trump did not pop up and on Facebook. People that were following President Joe Biden, because they had previously followed Joe Biden, um, now found out that they're following Donald J. Trump and JD Vance's pages when they clearly never signed up for those. So, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, all of course joined at the hip with Donald Trump right now are all suppressing liberal content while promoting conservative content. And as I've said many times, if that's what these apps choose to do, they have the right to do it.