A hashtag against Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke records on Twitter. #WhichHillary became the single most viral hashtag on Twitter, The Huffington Post reports. The tweets focused on Clinton’s record as it pertains to race, Wall Street, Iraq, gay marriage, health care and her former campaign tactics.
Hundreds of thousands of Tweets later and something was discovered in the Twitterverse: the #WhichHillary hashtag was not showing up. It began when Twitter suspended the account responsible for #WhichHillary, activists @GuerillaDems, Daily Kos reports. Twitter later said this was a mistake. The hashtag also disappeared from trending status. Daily Kos notes it’s not clear if the removal was deliberate or an error of some kind. (Orly?)
Twitter Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani held a fundraiser on Feb. 21 for Clinton’s presidential campaign, the Daily Kos points out.
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A few years ago I realised that the internet was filtered. It is becoming harder to find actual facts on line as your google search is carefully edited so that you only get results that you are allowed to see. I already knew that the mainstream news was paid for by the big money end of town, so you won’t get to see the views of Bernie Sanders etc. but now you can’t even find anything relevant online via search engines.
What gives?