On American TikTok users cannot seatch the phrase “Donald trump rigged election”, however when using a vpn to a mexican server the search does return results.
So basically a bad conspiracy theory
“Rigged election” and all associated searches don’t return results. It’s not just Trump.
So is Instagram, I have read.
Shocking
Well…
Is the insanely slow loading speed from midwest.social part of the censorship?
Tiktok is ruined. I never used it, didn’t like that it was being banned, but perhaps this was part of the deal they struck to get unbanned.
I guess just use a VPN and pretend to be from Mexico. There’s some irony in it. Or better yet, not use it at all.
Tiktok isn’t ruined, it’s delivering exactly what it was designed to deliver: Propoganda.
Oh look it’s a both-sideser
but guys, I’ve been assured by Lemmy’s most vocal tiktok supporters that tiktok is the last bastion of free speech. it’s a place where you’re free to express yourself without restrictions.
are you telling me that tiktok lied and those poor people were just paid troll accounts?
This is new, after the blackout. People from the U.S. get a message when searching for things like “vagina health” or “rigged election*”. The rest of the world gets results normally.
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That was before the blackout. Now a new TikTok has taken its place and everyone is talking about it on there.
well not anymore
I mean that is a pretty shit conspiracy theory.
Searching “Trump Election Lie” does return results. So I don’t think they’re actually censoring so much as stopping real misinformation.
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Im on mobile I’ll try and re post it when I get home
I think it’s because you uploaded (or at least formatted) it as an inline image so when you changed the title the url was replaced.
I edited the post, hopefully its visible now. Here it is just in case:
Thanks! It’s fixed for me too.
That works!
Heh, funny how that works
Imagine that.
That’s disfavorable of Trump? I thought it was one of his main talking points.
I guess it would be disfavorable if it referred to 2024 rather than 2020, but claiming 2024 was rigged doesn’t seem to be a big thing so I expect that most of the search results would have been about 2020.
There is speculation that the 2024 election was rigged and it was the most recent election so I would expect that there would be more recent posts about it than the 2020 election.
Example: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/85d8ac97-7ebe-48ba-8582-a1078511594f.png
Why would Trump say that!? I think it’s just him being incoherent, but it would be a confession from anyone who isn’t regularly so incoherent.
He knows that even if the election was confirmed to be rigged, there’s nothing that will be done about it at this point.
Saw a thread saying it blocks “rigged election” no matter what name you put in front of it.
That’s true, and its possible its been like that for a long long time.
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I guarantee people are right back on tiktok now that it’s back up.
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Plan A is do propaganda.
The apps are chapters on that plan. Meta will follow, bluesky might when somehow it’s threatened with a ban.
I’ve seen this posted elsewhere. Apparently it also doesn’t show results for “Joe Biden rigged election”
Thats because they seem to have banned searches for “rigged election” regardless of what other search terms you use.
Well there is only one person who is dumb enough to try to rig an election.
