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Starting this Thursday (28), the new Instagram Political Filter is coming to devices in Latin America. Also valid for Threads, the new Meta configuration was already promised by the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, and announced by Meta spokesperson, Andy Stone, since the beginning of February and finally landed on the updates that should arrive in their entirety in the coming days. u2z5f
O Political Filter consists of a mechanism in which Instagram s can determine whether they want to continue viewing content “that mentions governments, elections or social topics that affect a group of people and/or society in general”, from profiles that you don't follow, such as recommendations coming from the social network's own algorithm, which appear in the feed, Reels and stories.
Find out below, in this article from showmetech, a step-by-step guide to enabling or disabling the Instagram Political Filter and more details you need to know about the new Meta feature.
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The option to enable and disable the Political Filter Instagram is present in the application settings. Follow the steps below:
Step 1: in your profile, access the menu on the three horizontal stripes icon and select Settings and Activities. Then choose Content suggestion.
Step 2: Select Political Content. There are two options for the : Limit e Don't Limit. When you activate the first one, the Political Filter will restrict all content with this content coming from s that you do not follow; The second option does not enable the new function, so political, governmental and social content will continue to appear as recommended for you.
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The decision to create the Political Filter of Instagram began at the beginning of February this year, internally among Meta executives. It didn't take long for Instagram published on its official website the continuation of the measure, more precisely on February 9th.
The Political Filter will only work for public s and in places where the responsible algorithm includes these suggestions, such as Explore, Suggested s, and Recommendations in the feed. It is worth noting that the filter prevents the dissemination of content from Instagram s who are not followed by the who activated the activation. In other words, political profiles or pages with this content that are followed by the 's choice will not be affected by the Political Filter.
In of fear among content producers about feeling affected by Instagram's new advanced feature, professional s will be able to see, in their Status, whether their publications were affected by the filter, consequently resulting in boost eligibility for non-followers. Creators can contest the filter's action on a specific publication, in addition to editing, pausing or removing it.
For Meta executives, the Instagram Political Filter is a “good choice” for people logged into Instagram, Threads and Facebook. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, spoke more directly on the subject, commenting that the measure will not be to declassify or downgrade the importance of politics and hard news, but rather because the content can generate negativity and the risk of integrity. to s.
“Our goal is to preserve people’s ability to choose to interact with political content while respecting each person’s appetite for it.”
Adam Mosseri, to The Verge, about the Threads announcement
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A very clear point about the measurement of Instagram's Political Filter is the importance of social networks in the social context. In November this year, the United States will go through a presidential election, such an important moment in American democracy, but also very fragile to deal with.
Fake news, popularly called fake news, gained strength in Brazil amid the 2022 elections. The dangerous relationship between elections and fake news is destabilizing: 76% of Brazilians were exposed to false information about politics during the electoral period, according to the Political Panorama 2023, from the Federal Senate.
Other data from ipec, ordered by G1, reported that 89% of around 2000 respondents said they had come into with news about politics that they believe to be false on social media. Among them, 83% said they had found these fake news on social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
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Source: G1, The Verge, Instagram
reviewed by Glaucon Vital in 28 / 3 / 24.
