Did Twitter censor #GaysForTrump?

Published June 15, 2016 4:11am ET



 

It’s no surprise that many tech companies aren’t fond of Donald Trump, but gay supporters of the billionaire are claiming that Twitter silenced them and stopped their hashtag from trending.

#GaysForTrump began trending Tuesday. Members of the LGBT community tweeted the hashtag to let the world know that a sizable part of the voting bloc support for Trump, especially since the Orlando shooting.

After just an hour of trending, #GaysForTrump plummeted from the list of trending hashtags, was removed from autospell, and Twitter suggested that supporters of the billionaire really meant to look for the search term #LGBTHatesTrumpParty.

Despite their efforts to suppress the LGBT supporters of the Republican nominee, they continued to tweet that they weren’t unicorns, weren’t going to be victims of a jihadist terrorist attack, and were going be loud, proud, and support Trump.