Instagram users caught on to what some said was a secretive rollout of a policy to stop recommending political content on its platform or on its Threads platform.
The app followed in the footsteps of its parent company, Meta, which has been limiting political posts across its other platform, Facebook, since Feb. 9. Meta claimed to have received feedback from users requesting to see less political content. It similarly will not recommend accounts of politicians to users.
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