Instagram restricted access to political content

Some Instagram users may have noticed in recent days that the amount of political content they used to see on this social network has decreased.

According to CBC, Instagram always “recommends” some posts based on people’s interests without following pages. But for some time now, this media has been suppressing political content and refusing to show social, legal or election posts to people. In other words, Instagram has “automatically” set the option to “restrict” posts with political content. (This option can be seen in the settings section).

Also, it seems that this media has not directly informed the users that it has made such changes.

Although there is a quick and easy way to change this kind of content suppression, this has happened as elections are held in many countries this year.

Many users are angry that Instagram has quietly made such changes, and some say that this social network’s definition of political content is so broad that it includes non-political posts and has limited their display.

In fact, Meta, the company that owns Instagram, announced last month that it had stopped “actively recommending” political content from accounts that users don’t follow. It is said that a similar restriction has been created on Threads accounts and it is supposed to be applied to the Facebook social network in the future.

Meta company says that it does not intend to prevent the viewing of political content, but if someone intends to see such content, they should follow the relevant pages themselves.

It should be said, Meta had previously limited access to news specifically in Canada. This decision was made after the Canadian Senate announced that platforms such as Google and Meta should work with them to use the news of news organizations. reach a financial agreement.