For people who think this: he's there. You're just looking at your sidebar, rather than actual UK trends https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1265271370189082626 …pic.twitter.com/qrS6M9goIy
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But like you said: CumGate? And the misspelt Cummings tag having a link about the story? If a link is appearing that seems like something a human has placed there, so why would they not just correct the filtering problem if they know it's happening? I've asked Twitter comms FWIW
But it's not manipulating trending topics if it's just taking a filter off? Again, I guess we'll only know til/if they confirm, but I've seen this happen loads on topics that have no anti-porn risk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ maybe I'm wrong!
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