Meta won't recommend political content on Threads

Meta will not "proactively recommend political content from accounts you don't follow" on Threads. The policies, which are the same it currently uses to regulate political content on its Facebook and Instagram apps, fill in the details of how Threads and Instagram will handle political content as the election approaches. Threads leadership has previously said the platform did not want to encourage hard news or politics on its platform, but had not laid out the practical measures the company would take to achieve that goal. Threads users will be allowed to follow accounts that post political content, but the algorithm that suggests content from users you don't follow will not recommend accounts that post about politics. Users will have an option that allows them to opt into political recommendations—first on Threads, then on Facebook, at an unspecified date.