Instagram's Threads never wanted to be a platform for hard news or politics. Now it's blocking searches about COVID-19. - Business Insider

Instagram's Threads never wanted to be a platform for hard news or politics. Now it's blocking searches about COVID-19. By Tom Carter ... Read More

Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss

Adam Mosseri ran Facebook’s News Feed in 2016, and now he tells Alex Heath that politics and hard news aren’t ‘worth the scrutiny, negativity (let’s be honest), or integrity risks.’ Adam ... Read More

Instagram Boss Says Politics & Hard News Will Not Be Pushed By Threads Like Twitter: “Not Worth Scrutiny, Negativity Or Integrity Risks”

The Instagram boss noted that “politics and hard news are important” but “from a platform’s perspective, any incremental engagement or revenue they might drive is not at all worth the ... Read More

Meta's Threads wants to become a 'friendly' place by downgrading news and politics - NPR

Meta's Threads wants to become a 'friendly' place by downgrading news and politics Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter clone as a more "friendly" place for online discourse. Read More

Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri

It’s been nearly a year since Instagram and Threads defaulted to blocking recommendations of “political” content from accounts you don’t already follow, but now Instagram boss Adam Mosseri ... Read More

Threads Won’t Promote Political Or Hard News Content — A Contrast From Twitter - Forbes

Instagram lead Adam Mosseri said in two Threads posts Friday that the new app would not encourage “politics and hard news” on its platform, a far cry from the promoted political content found ... Read More

Meta's Threads, which is basically a Twitter clone, minimizes news and politics - NPR

Meta's new app Threads aims to be a friendlier alternative to Twitter by deemphasizing news and politics. But for many people, partisan brawls are a big part of Twitter's appeal. Read More

Instagram head says Threads is ‘not going to amplify news on the platform’ - TechCrunch

But if Threads’ position is to not “amplify” news, it won’t work as an X replacement. Real-time news and information are the lifeblood of X, and it’s a hard formula to reproduce. Read More

Will Meta's Threads be a platform of news and politics? Instagram boss replies

Instagram's new app ‘Threads’ has become a huge hit on the internet and registered 70 million users within days of launch. The text-based platform has been touted as the challenger to Twitter. Read More

Meta’s new setting shadow bans politics on Instagram and Threads - The Verge

Meta’s new opt-out setting limits visibility of politics on Instagram and Threads. Meta is now recommending less political content from accounts you don’t follow by default. Read More

Instagram's Threads bursts out of the gate with more than 30 million sign-ups - NBC News

Despite the initial success, it’s far from a sure thing that Threads will ever become bigger or more embedded in news and culture than Twitter. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience ... Read More