Twitter no longer recommends Trump's profile when you search 'asshole' - Tech News Digest

Thursday 26 January 2017

Twitter no longer recommends Trump's profile when you search 'asshole'

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Twitter users have been noticing for the past few days that if you search words like "asshole," racist," "tiny hands" and "douchebag," it will bring up a bunch of results, along with President Donald Trump's profile.

Now, it appears that Twitter is actually censoring those results to exclude President Trump.

Mashable first reported the search result findings on Monday, but after widespread media attention, searching "racist," "asshole," and "douchebag" will no longer bring you to Trump's profile, though it will probably bring you to plenty of tweets about Trump including those words. Read more...

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via Tech News Digest

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