On Monday, July 21st, Instagram temporarily suspended the account of Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assembly member and NYC mayoral candidate. The suspension, which lasted approximately 3 hours b…
And it is pretty much guaranteed to be bullshit. If they shut a politician out due to social democratic opinions, they would be shooting themselves in the foot. So many users would leave the platform. That isn’t in Metas interest.
If they want to control the narrative they have to keep people on the site, and they could just show the content that they don’t like to fewer of the users.
The suspension, which lasted approximately 3 hours before his account was reinstated, was explained by Instagram senior directors in an internal leaked memo that his content was deemed “too socialist,” and goes against current national US interest.
Just checked and his account appears to be up. Clickbait article maybe?
It was down for 3 hours, with the reason being “too socialist” and “not in America’s best interests”.
And it is pretty much guaranteed to be bullshit. If they shut a politician out due to social democratic opinions, they would be shooting themselves in the foot. So many users would leave the platform. That isn’t in Metas interest.
If they want to control the narrative they have to keep people on the site, and they could just show the content that they don’t like to fewer of the users.
Do we have any evidence or indication of that, other than this one spurious article?
Sir this isn’t Reddit, read the article first lmao
The article smells like BS