Thread by @lsanger

Twitter is censoring discussion of #Obamagate.

Compare the very limited search results when you search for #obamagate mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%23ob… (just 8 “top” results and **0** “latest results)

...and this more honest, uncensored search: duckduckgo.com/?q=%22%23obama…

I use DDG to search inside sites a lot now, usually on YouTube, but now apparently on Twitter. Manipulative fools.

Wait...I spoke too soon. There aren’t any tweets in the DDG search newer than 2018. Most are taken down. And *my* new #obamagate is now the only “latest” result for this popular hashtag?! What’s going on?

My guess is DDG uses old data from the Twitter API.

Maybe it’s just me, but here’s what I got when I searched on Startpage: #obamagate site:Twitter.com

I’m not on a VPN; I’m using Brave...trying FireFox...got the same problem.

Turns out that also-ran search engine Google have better results: google.com/search?ei=NmGA…

Compare the saved search result from webcrawler.com/serp?q=obamaga… about a Buzzfeed story with the current page on Buzzfeed itself.

Anyway, that above DDG search is useful for purposes of seeing just how many #obamagate tweets have been taken down. And the fact that only my tweets of the last hour appear (for now...) in the Latest tab is really revealing.

@Jack, this is a legit topic. Why so much censorship?

@dbongino @DineshDSouza @TomFitton @AQtime The above thread concerns you. A few of your tweets are the *only*results permitted by Twitter for the #Obamagate hashtag.

I’m privileged! I have the only result (for the next 15 minutes) for #Obamagate Latest tab!