Topics and Instagram will recommend political content after all

Meta continues to overhaul its moderation and content rules. Instagram President Adam Mosseri posted today that Instagram and Threads will begin including political content in recommendations. It is a retreat from the policy adopted by the two platforms which made political content something users had to choose if they wanted to see it. Now, Mosseri said there will be three levels of political content that Instagram and Threads users can choose to view: Less, Standard (which will be the default) and More.

“It has proven impractical to draw a red line around what is political content and what is not,” Mosseri wrote. The change will begin to be implemented this week in the United States and in the rest of the world in the coming weeks.

The announcement is the latest in a series of shifts by Meta that appear to be efforts to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump. CEO Mark Zuckerberg That the company will ditch third-party fact-checkers in favor of a community feedback model for Facebook, Instagram and Threads, to mimic the approach taken at X (formerly Twitter). Nick Clegg Step down As head of global affairs, he will be replaced by Joel Kaplan, who has good relations with Republicans in Washington, D.C.

Yesterday, it was discovered that Instagram also exists Many have been using LGBTQ hashtags and treating them as “sexually suggestive material” for months. The company said this was an error.