OtterUsers shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default
SomeGuy69reach normal people who might not otherwise hear a message that they need to hear, like, abortion is on the ballot in Florida, or voting is happening today
Uhm, maybe that’s a good thing, you don’t want people with single digit brain cells to vote anyways. How is it possible to rely on Instagram to remember to vote? Don’t you get a letter that you’re allowed to vote on date x? At least in my country you do.
richieadlerIn my country it’s a big deal because voting is mandatory and you get a fine if you don’t vote.
Yes. I think it’s important too. Not sure what people read in my comment. Yet why should people rely on Instagram to know to vote. Instagram is a social media that has nothing to do with real world or politics of a country.
Yet why should people rely on Instagram to know to vote?
Nobody said they should. But people are idiots and make conclusions from what they read in there anyway, so they should be liable if they spread misinformation or if they, like Facebook, contributed to a coup in Myanmar or had a role in the attempt of taking the US Capitol.
Instagram is a social media that has nothing to do with real world or politics of a country.
You really need to live inside a jar to believe that nonsense.
Remember Cambridge Analytica? One of the selling arguments is that they helped the triumph in my country of a right-wing party by using Facebook. So “nothing to do with real world or politics”? Fuck that noise.
