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.
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?