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Twitter users erupted in anger as popular social media site “disappeared” the trending #DNCLeaks hashtag after Wikileaks released over 20,000 emails that showed the Democratic National Committee was skewed in favor of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.
WashingtonPost describes:
Embarrassing emails sent and received by DNC members had enough momentum to propel the story to Twitter’s top “trending” news feed on Friday afternoon. The #DNCLeaks entry vanished in the evening, but returned 20 minutes later after users cried foul.
The story had 250,000 tweets at the time it was pulled. The Washington Examiner then aggregated a stream of angry feedback.
“Don’t normally tweet political things, but why would @twitter pull the #DNCleaks from trending at #1. Sounds like censorship to me,” one user wrote.
“Twitter is still trying to censor this trend! Now #DNCleak is trending instead of original #DNCLeaks! Keep talking guys, expose corruption,” added another.
Hey @donnabrazile you gonna be able to hold back “cussing out Sanders supporters” as DNC Chair? #DNCleak #DNCleaks pic.twitter.com/Wf0Z1DF365
— Veterans For Bernie (@Vets4Bernie) July 24, 2016
DNC is building A WALL to protect their convention from protesters. LOL! Irony!#DNCLeaks #DNCleak pic.twitter.com/wqixSkmN2t
— Sogol Ayrom (@SogolAyrom) July 23, 2016
I cant wait for Black Vote strategy"tell them you Carry fried chicken and hot sauce in your bag" #DNCLeak #DNCLeaks https://t.co/4R2HbrahCO
— Melissa (@Sweetatertot) July 23, 2016
Congratulations @twitter and the mainstream media. Youve somehow unified Bernie supporters and republicans. #DNCLeaks #dncleak
— Michael (@mikeypredsfan) July 23, 2016
The fact #DNCLEAK or #DNCLeaks doesn't show up at all on the trending tweets says a lot about how deep this is.
— Jay // Putty (@JayPuttyMusic) July 23, 2016
