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Oops, a Meta ‘error’ limited political content on Instagram and Threads

It reset itself every time the app was closed.

At the time, the company said it wasn’t limiting political content from reaching people on Instagram but instead simply giving users the ability to stop seeing posts that don’t interest them. “Our goal is to preserve the ability for people to choose to interact with political content, while respecting each person’s appetite for it,“ Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a Threads post announcing the change. When Threads first rolled out, Mosseri told The Verge ’s Alex Heath that the app would “not do anything to encourage” politics or “hard news.”

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