Ahead of the general elections in the United States, Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has decided not to automatically display political content on its social sites.
According to the ongoing report in this regard, the company that owns Facebook, Metta, its social sharing application Instagram and microblogging platforms Threads But automatically stopped showing political content, however, users will be able to see the said content after changing the settings.
Both Instagram and Threads confirmed in blog posts that political content will no longer appear by default on both platforms.
However, users will be able to view political content after changing the settings on both platforms, the post said.
Metta has stopped showing political content on both platforms in view of the US presidential election in November last year, but after changing the settings, American users will also be able to see all kinds of political content.
The company defines political content as discussing election topics, government, policy and social issues from a political perspective, and users around the world will automatically stop seeing political content in the coming days.
Till now both the platforms also showed political content to the user based on their algorithm but now political content will be visible on Instagram and Threads only after changing the settings and allowing the platforms.
However, Meta did not immediately make such a change on the world’s largest social website, Facebook, but it is likely that a similar change will be made on it as well.
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