Just in time for the 2024 election: hiding posts about "laws, elections, or social topics.”
Meta puts their thumb on the scale without transparency, downgrading content related to what npub1v4hacm824jtk0kytddat4ttvx5g5cm6cxztehucdfs84r7yc4quqqlejzl (npub1v4h…ejzl) calls "wide swaths of the lived human experience."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/16/instagram-limits-political-content-shadowban-election-posts/
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