{"id":368538,"date":"2017-11-06T05:56:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=368538"},"modified":"2017-11-06T05:56:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:56:37","slug":"twitter-criticised-for-erasing-bisexual-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=368538","title":{"rendered":"Twitter criticised for ‘erasing’ bisexual photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter is being criticised for failing to show any photos under the bisexual hashtag.<\/p>\n

Some are calling it\u00a0bi-erasure, as photo results for “lesbian” and “gay” still exist.<\/p>\n

Users are pointing out that when you search #bisexual, a message appears on the photos tab stating: “The term you entered did not bring up any results.”<\/p>\n

Twitter say there was no “erasure” and that there was an “error with the system that has been revolved.”<\/p>\n

Kate Harrad, of campaign group The Bisexual Index, tells Newsbeat that bisexual people have “historically been hypersexualised and associated with porn and promiscuity”.<\/p>\n

“Every bi-activist knows the problems of trying to search for bi-content on the web and some public wifi systems block it altogether, even when it’s nothing to do with sex, because bisexual is seen as a dodgy word in itself.<\/p>\n

“This is why Twitter needs to be very sensitive to any filtering that reduces access to bi content, and very aware of the problem of bisexual erasure.”<\/p>\n

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Confirming that if you search\u00a0#bisexual\u00a0and click on photos, there is NOTHING there.<\/p>\n

I’m bi. I am a person. My existence isn’t offensive.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Whitney Drake \ud83c\udf0a\u2728 (@whitneyd)\u00a0November 5, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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If you search\u00a0#bisexual\u00a0and click on photos or news there are no results.<\/p>\n

This is bi-erasure.\u00a0@Twitter\u00a0has done this. \ud83d\ude21\ud83d\ude21\ud83d\ude21<\/p>\n

We exist.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Karen (@ManicMippisMum)\u00a0November 5, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

It’s not known whether the omission is connected to recent changes made to Twitter’s rules around potentially sensitive material.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve identified an error with search results for certain terms. We apologize for this. We\u2019re working quickly to resolve & will update soon.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport)\u00a0November 5, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

An update on November 3\u00a0listed new ways\u00a0it was dealing with issues such as spam, graphic violence, adult content and abusive behaviour.<\/p>\n

Currently, no photos show up regardless of whether the “hide sensitive content” button is checked or unchecked.<\/p>\n

Find us on Instagram at\u00a0<\/i>BBCNewsbeat\u00a0and follow us on Snapchat, search for\u00a0<\/i>bbc_newsbeat<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter is being criticised for failing to show any photos under the bisexual hashtag. Some are calling it\u00a0bi-erasure, as photo results for “lesbian” and “gay” still exist. Users are pointing out that when you search #bisexual, a message appears on the photos tab stating: “The term you entered did not bring up any results.” Twitter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":368163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[2125,3,1030],"class_list":["post-368538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-bi-sexual","tag-ghana-news","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}