Saturday, December 14, 2024

Tag: As Part of New Censorship Campaign

Threads Is Already Blacklisting Covid Terms From Search, As Part of New Censorship Campaign

by Cindy Harper, Reclaim The Net:

New app. Same censorship.

Meta is once again up to its old tricks. The new social networking app Threads, which was marketed as an alternative to the platform formerly known as Twitter, is now limiting access to information and prohibiting searches related to key terms such as “coronavirus” and “vaccines,” as revealed by the Washington Post.

Despite only being a couple of months old, the platform has already been observed to deliberately muzzle certain search terms in its novel search functionality.