Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee. Friday afternoon, users noted, #DNCLeaks was trending, with more than 250,000 tweets about it on the platform. By Friday evening, it vanished completely from the site’s trending bar for at least 20 minutes. It returned as #DNCLeak after users erupted, though it was too late to quell their rage. #DNCLeaks was trending #1. @twitter pulls it from the list completely, gets called on it, then replaces it with #DNCleak to cover themselves— Gabe (@gacman0) July 23, 2016
Source: Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story | Washington Examiner