Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’ tweet led to a rise of anti-Asian hashtags, study finds

Donald Trump‘s tweet in March 2020 that referred to coronavirus as the ‘Chinese virus’ led to a rise of anti-Asian hashtags on Twitter, a new study reveals.  US researchers examined nearly 700,000 tweets containing nearly 1.3 million hashtags, the week before and after the president’s tweet on March 16, 2020. They wanted to see whether his … Read more

Instagram claims ‘bug’ pushed negative hashtags for Joe Biden and hid same tags for Donald Trump

Is Instagram biased towards Trump? Firm blames a ‘bug’ for promoting negative hashtags for Biden – while the Facebook-owned firm hid the same ones for the president – and now claims its fixed Instagram has disabled its ‘related hashtags on its platform as of Tuesday The move follows a report that suggests the firm was … Read more

UK’s 20 most Instagrammable villages revealed based on hashtags

When it comes to pretty villages, Britain is undoubtedly a class act. And so this picture-list of its most ‘Instagrammable’ hamlets is sweet eye-candy indeed. It has been compiled by property website Bankrate, which took to image-sharing site Instagram and assessed the number of hashtags 100 villages dotted around the UK each had. Then it … Read more

K-pop fans drown out hashtags supporting Trump and police

Protesters are leveraging avid fans of Korean pop music to drown out hashtags supporting Donald Trump and pro-police movements on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter K-pop fans have been enlisted to drown out right-wing hashtags Fans of flooded #MAGA and #BlueLivesMatter with K-pop content Earlier this week, K-pop fans inundated an app promoted by Dallas police  By … Read more