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Post by katlady on Oct 31, 2020 7:25:42 GMT
So, Instagram turned off the ability to search for recent posts by hashtags because they are worried about misinformation being spread about the upcoming election. ALL hashtags! Even “innocent” ones like “scrapbooking”. I think that is ridiculous! Is it Nov 4th yet?
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Post by lisae on Oct 31, 2020 12:13:40 GMT
Yes, it is ridiculous. Instagram, owned by Facebook, hasn't done the work over the last 4 years to deal with the true problem so they are patching things together with blanket solutions. They are acting like our current administration.
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Post by SockMonkey on Oct 31, 2020 12:25:31 GMT
Meanwhile, Facebook was complicit in disinformation campaigns that impacted the 2016 election and led us to this day.
But sure, ban hashtag searches. Stupid.
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Post by hop2 on Oct 31, 2020 12:59:37 GMT
#stupid
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naby64
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Post by naby64 on Oct 31, 2020 13:14:18 GMT
I did a search and found some posts. I wonder why recent ones were turned off? I mean, the political season has been happening for a bit now. What is their line of cutoff?
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Post by Really Red on Oct 31, 2020 14:20:39 GMT
I was wondering why I couldn't search yesterday. I guess this is better than what happened in 2016.
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Post by kenziekeeper on Oct 31, 2020 14:45:22 GMT
You can search for hashtags and older posts will come up. They turned off showing the “recent” section in the results. Not great either, but let’s look at what was actually done.
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ashley
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Post by ashley on Oct 31, 2020 15:31:17 GMT
It appears to work for me! So maybe just Americans are blocked from seeing recent hash tags.
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Post by katlady on Oct 31, 2020 15:33:45 GMT
It appears to work for me! So maybe just Americans are blocked from seeing recent hash tags. Probably. |
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Post by katlady on Oct 31, 2020 15:38:16 GMT
You can search for hashtags and older posts will come up. They turned off showing the “recent” section in the results. Not great either, but let’s look at what was actually done. I follow a couple of hashtags on a daily basis. The posts I see now are the ones that are usually in the “top posts” section, not the “recent” section. I don’t see any posts newer than 1 day ago, and there are always new posts daily for those hashtags. I saw on Twitter that people who sell things or are influencers are upset because their traffic is way down. |
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Post by hop2 on Oct 31, 2020 15:49:36 GMT
It appears to work for me! So maybe just Americans are blocked from seeing recent hash tags. We can’t handle it - well some of us can’t obviously |
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Post by refugeepea on Oct 31, 2020 18:09:00 GMT
I'm okay with it, but it seems a bit late to make a difference.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Oct 31, 2020 18:12:14 GMT
I did a search and found some posts. I wonder why recent ones were turned off? I mean, the political season has been happening for a bit now. What is their line of cutoff? One week before the US election is what they announced for their "general" measures. I assume they might've noticed people were jumping on hashtags as an attempt to use a loophole so they went ahead and deactivated the recent search history for US users. |
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