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How to turn off Instagram’s political content filter


It's election season in the U.S., and Instagram has changed the way that it recommends political content. On both Instagram and the newer X competitor

While some people might welcome a breather from politics, others find the changes alarming, since social media is a key tool for community organizing and disseminating information about current events. And then there was the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw a political consulting group hijack the data of millions of Facebook users to aid Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. We don’t know yet what kinds of content Instagram will bar, and how that will affect creators, whose livelihood is impacted by their ability to find new audiences.

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