Meta is limiting how much political content users see. Here's how to opt out of that

Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads — is making good on its promise to tamp down the amount of political posts that users see on their feeds.

Meta said in early February that Instagram and Threads would stop recommending political content from accounts that users don’t already follow. It said it would roll out the changes “slowly over time,” though did not specify when.

The change started unrolling for users last week, Meta confirmed to NPR on Monday. And Instagram users quickly started noticing that their default settings had changed to limit content that is “likely to mention governments, elections, or social topics that affect a group of people and/or society at large,” as the app now puts it.