Meta announced in February that it no longer would recommend content about politics and social issues on the two social media platforms.
asking the company to reverse its decision to limit the reach of accounts posting “political content” on Threads and Instagram.in February that it no longer would recommend content about politics and social issues on the two social media platforms, which have tens of millions of users in the United States.
“As users of Meta’s platforms, we did not choose to automatically opt-out of receiving suggested political content on civic activism and news updates,” the letter reads. “Removing political recommendations as a default setting, and consequently stopping people from seeing suggested political content poses a serious threat to political engagement, education, and activism.”
“This hurts people’s access to information and their ability to find accurate information,” she said. “Limiting the reach of creators without notice or definition of what constitutes ‘political content’ threatens their identities and livelihoods, while leaving hundreds of millions of users without access to critical news content during the biggest global election year in history,” said Nicole Gill, a co-founder of Accountable Tech and its executive director.
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