Instagram Will No Longer Show Political Content

One of the largest technology companies in the world MetaEven though it has been involved in a global scandal such as Cambridge Analytica in the past, it attaches importance to maintaining Instagram as an apolitical platform. However, elections, wars and emerging social movements inevitably cause Facebook and Instagram to turn into places where politics is discussed.

Adam Mosseri, the boss of Instagram, shared in his statement that Meta will edit its algorithm for users who at least want to remain apolitical. According to Mosseri Instagram and its sister app Threadswill not recommend political content in areas such as the Explore tab or Reels, where users discover new content.

Posts about social issues will also be considered “political”

Firstly; of this change Instagram and Threads will not be completely cleared of political content let’s point out. If you follow artificial accounts with political posts, you will continue to see the posts of these accounts. In addition, those who want to continue seeing political content recommendations will be able to receive political content recommendations by activating the relevant option in the Settings menu.

So what does “political content” mean according to Instagram? Mosseri mainly government, elections, laws and social issues will be discussed as political content Although he says that they know that the expression “political content” has a complex and dynamic meaning, they will update this definition with user feedback. These changes will come into force within a few weeks.

Does Meta want to stop people from discussing social issues?

The update in question was interpreted as Meta’s method of preventing users from discussing social issues. If so, this effort Compatible with Instagram’s “Don’t show the world rosy” policy we can say. However, it seems a bit ironic that Threads, which wants to compete with X, where almost all the problems in the world are discussed, is trying to be purified from political content.