Instagram Changes User Settings to Limit Political Content

Instagram has reportedly changed users’ algorithm settings to limit political content by default.

Earlier last month, Meta announced that Instagram and Threads would begin limiting political content, but did not say it would change all users’ settings to a limited politics default.

“This announcement expands on years of work on how we approach and treat political content based on what people have told us they wanted,” a spokesperson with Instagram said. “It does not impact posts from accounts people choose to follow; it impacts what the system recommends. And now, people are going to be able to control whether they would like to have these types of posts recommended to them.”

According to a Fox News report, “some Instagram users said that when they tried to change their settings, the app crashed.”

“The entire app crashes when I go to political settings. That’s wild,” a user wrote in a post on Friday.

“Interesting I went to my settings and privacy and content & went to limit, and it takes me back out of Instagram. It won’t let me change it!!” another comment said.

To still see political content, users must go into their settings and manually change it by clicking on “content preferences” and then “political content” and selecting “don’t limit.”