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In a move users are calling "embarrassing" and lacking "courage," Instagram and Threads head Adam Mosseri announced that the platforms will be recommending political content to users once again.

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Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts Our tech columnist investigates how Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Threads suppress content related to the election.

That's because of a new political content limit that was automatically added to Instagram user accounts in March.

Political content is those posts that are “likely to mention governments, elections, or social topics that affect a group of people and/or society at large”, Meta’s rules say.

Meta returns political content to Threads and Instagram, minus fact-checkers, drawing backlash over hate speech and misinformation.

Instagram will no longer "proactively recommend" political content from accounts that users do not already follow.

Adam Mosseri says that starting this week, the default settings for Instagram and Threads will allow political content recommendations from people you don’t follow.

By automatically setting the “political content” control to “limit” on user accounts. The limits also affect users with Threads accounts tied to their Instagram accounts.

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