Posted on 05/25/2018 8:37:26 PM PDT by caww
Donald Trump Jr. is furious with Instagram because he says the social media platform issued a warning to users searching his name.
After noticing a massive loss of followers in the past few weeks, President Trumps oldest son claimed to have discovered a warning message issued to Instagram users and expressed his outrage in a post to the platform Friday night.
He tagged Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, which owns Instagram.
REALLY?!?! Are you fricken kidding me? @zuck this is insane, he wrote. I get that my 3 year old Chloe can be pretty aggressive as are a few of my humorous memes, but this is ridiculous. If this account could cause harm and even lead to death we have serious problems.
Some social media platforms have been subject to criticism by Republicans over alleged censorship of conservative content, including Facebook, which prompted the company to commit to an internal review.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
A good read on Instagram - a bit long - but - does give you some idea of how “engineered” the social media experience is on Instagram.
https://www.wired.com/2017/08/instagram-kevin-systrom-wants-to-clean-up-the-internet/
Some less technical mention of what triggers this generic/boilerplate search warning message.
Taken as a whole - why the heck is Trump Jr even fooling around on Instagram?
Sometimes even good intentions from supporters - can work to dilute the presidents message.
I manage SM presence for about a dozen businesses - and nobody wants to fool around with Instagram or Snapchat - its bad enough they have to pay me to manage Facebook. But at least Facebook is like - adults - people with jobs and money - that’s our demographic! Horny and depressed teenagers...not so much.
btt
Zuckerberg is going over some pretty serious lines in the sand, IMO.
FBI needs to investigate this blocking of a person’s First Amendment rights. Instagram is a pubic forum and Judge Buchenwald would not be happy.
Bingo. Except Zuck is more insidious than Rockefeller.
This was part of his Instagram post
Also see video and pic where a friend searching MY NAME got a message warning that Posts with words or tags youre searching for often encourage behavior that can cause harm and even lead to death
Not following you - what video?
I read the attached article that says “When the Washington Examiner attempted to replicate what Trump Jr.’s video shows in a search for his name, the warning message did not show up.”
And - following that boilerplate warning - there are 3 options.
One of the options is “See Posts Anyway”
Click that and proceed as normal.
It is disturbing and censor-ish - but its not as if they are blocking or removing Don Jrs. account or content.
Like I suggested earlier - more likely activists playing games with the Instagram “Wellness” bot
Thanks -I see the remark from T-Jr now.
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