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Twitter Says ‘Bug’ Kept Users From Searching ‘The Lincoln Project’ Amid Co-Founder’s Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Jon Brown
Twitter Says ‘Bug’ Kept Users From Searching ‘The Lincoln Project’ Amid Co-Founder’s Sexual Misconduct Allegations
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Twitter blamed a bug for the inability of users to search for The Lincoln Project as news circulated about its co-founder’s sexual misconduct.

“This was a bug that was fixed yesterday,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Saturday. The statement apparently did not elaborate on why the bug occurred when news was spreading that John Weaver, one of the co-founders of the anti-Trump political action committee, had been accused by several young men of sexual harassment.

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