the person responsible for Instagram and Threads, Adam Mosseri, shared a video on his own page where he speaks out about the changes to Meta's moderation policy. Furthermore, Mosseri says that these social networks will now show political content to users.
In the video, Mosseri recaps all of the changes announced by Zuckerberg and says the goal is to introduce a more personalized approach to showing political content from pages that users don't follow. For the Instagram and Threads chief, the goal will also be to give creators with political content a place to talk about these issues.
"Instagram was built on the principles of creativity and giving everyone a voice, and this focus on freedom of expression will help us get back to those roots.”, says Mosseri, noting that the changes should be felt this week and that they will become more evident over time.
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It is worth remembering that, at the launch of the Threads in 2023, Mosseri stated that the revenue from displaying more political content on the social network “did not justify all the scrutiny, negativity and integrity risks” that would result in this bet. Well, Mosseri now seems to have a different perspective on the matter.
"I have said publicly for a long time that it is not our place to show people political content from pages they do not follow, but many people have been very clear that they want this content and it has proven impractical to draw a red line around what is and is not political content.", Mosseri wrote on Threads.
