Twitter accused of erasing bisexual photos and news

Twitter has been accused of “erasing” posts under the search term “bisexual.”

If you try searching for “bisexual” in the search function, you’ll see that no photos, videos or news shows up.

The social network was forced to apologize after high-profile Twitter accounts spotted what they described as a “censoring.”

Late Sunday, it wrote: “We’ve identified an error with search results for certain terms. We apologize for this. We’re working quickly to resolve and will update soon.”

But the problem appears to be ongoing as the search function yields no photo or news results when you search for “bisexual.”

Posts and hashtags are still visible.

It’s unclear whether the omission is connected to recent changes made to Twitter’s policy on sensitive material including abusive words, nudity and spam.

They clarified that genitals, buttocks or breasts are not allowed.

But certain threatening language was allowed if it provided “context” or was “newsworthy.”

It made the changes following harsh criticism over the way it judged whether to suspend “offending” accounts.

The site came under fire for allowing Donald Trump to publish tweets that would typically be regarded as violating its policies, including a suggestion that North Korea “won’t be around much longer.”

Yet it suspended actress Rose McGowan after she tweeted “f*** off” to actor Ben Affleck and accused him of lying about his knowledge of producer Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual misconduct, something she fell victim to.

Twitter later said it had suspended her account because she had tweeted a personal phone number, which they removed immediately.

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