At a moment when Zuckerberg’s focus is clearly on sucking up to the Trump administration, Instagram goes the extra mile to block hashtags like #democrat and #democrats from Instagram.

Officially it’s a mistake, with some tool from the company giving the following statement:

We’re aware of an error affecting hashtags across the political spectrum and we are working quickly to resolve it.

Despite their claim to affect “across the political spectrum”, the “problem” seems to affect both #democrat and #democrats, but neither the hashtags #republican nor #republicans.

Here’s a video of said behaviour documented by a PeerTube user (@letydoesstuff@peertube.doesstuff.social):

https://peertube.doesstuff.social/w/f8c84bb5-3dec-45a1-b833-3b3f0736c4e8