GoalMark Zuckerberg’s company, began limit political content on Instagram by defaultspecifically, in the feed main and in the recommended content when it comes from accounts that users do not follow. This measure aims to preserve people’s ability to choose whether you want to interact or not With this content, in addition, the application enabled a configuration option with which interested parties can manage the appearance of photos, videos or reels that are related to politics.
But what does Meta mean by political content? According to the Instagram Help Center, Zuckerberg’s company refers to topics about governments, laws, elections and some issues that affect a group of people or society in general. Therefore, thanks to this feature, users can do without the policy without changing the way in which the publications of the accounts that they do follow are displayed.
Furthermore, this novelty began to be deployed globally by default in the ‘Content Preferences’ widget, where users see that ‘Limit political content from people you don’t follow’ is active by default. However, it is important to mention that this option can be easily changed.
How to disable political content control on Instagram
If you look at the images below, the ‘Limit political content from people you don’t follow’ option is on. set by defaultTherefore, this control identifies whether the content or accounts are political in nature.
Nevertheless, from 20Bits we explain how to deactivate this option:
- Open Instagram on your device.
- Tap your profile photo or the user icon located at the bottom right of the application.
- When your user profile has been opened, select the three stripes icon at the top right.
- Scroll through the menu until you find ‘What you see’ to select ‘Suggested content‘.
- Then open ‘Political content‘.
- And finally, tap on ‘Don’t limit political content from people you don’t follow’.
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