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Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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I don't use Instagram, but I also don't want any politics in my cereal, so that would be fine here.
Personally I wouldn't be affected by this since it only affects recommendations, but the issue is that Meta gets to decide what is "political".
Nearly everything has a political component to it, and this can be an excuse for hiding content that the company doesn't want as many people to see. Activism for example is "political".
Having the option to set the flag would be nice for those who want a filtered feed. I'm just suspicious I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That would be fine by me as long as they are hiding all political content, not just the content they don't agree with.
Instagram isn’t for politics. It’s for wanting to see your friends but instead getting low-quality content irrelevant to your interests no matter how hard you try to train the “algorithm.”