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Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] NotAtWork@startrek.website 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have seen trans creators in IG reporting that they are being filtered by this setting, so that's not great.

[–] drawerair@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Were they posting things re laws related to gender? If yes, maybe Instagram treated those as political and maybe those content didn't reach many folks – due to the limit setting discussed in the article.

[–] NotAtWork@startrek.website 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, mostly just regular posts, meta just decided that being trans is "political".

[–] drawerair@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Instagram should fix its algorithm then.

[–] NotAtWork@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that's why I brought it up, Meta is kind of a shit company.