Community Notes is just one of the ways Threads is changing under Meta’s new approach to moderation. The app, which has been against sharing and promoting “political” content, will now also suggest political posts. In a short video shared on Threads today, Instagram and Threads head Adam Mosseri demonstrated how you can adjust the amount of political content you see in your feed. Meta gives users three options: ‘See less’, which tries to weed out political content, ‘Standard’, which suggests some political content, and ‘See more’, which treats political content like everything else on the app.
It’s not clear that community notes or toggles for political content address the real problems people have with Threads, or whether they’ll make anyone happier. They do, however, fit with the “free speech warrior” image that Meta is trying to project.
