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"While users who type "#Democrat" or "#Democrats" see no results, the hashtag "Republican" returns 3.3 million posts on the social media platform.

By manually searching Instagram for "Democrats", rather than clicking on a hashtag, users are greeted by a screen reading "we've hidden these results"."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o

Meta says it's a "technical problem" But since both searches fail this looks more like a trial balloon to me.

I see you, meta.