With the arrival of the Trump government in America, a change in social media policy is visible, the social media groups which started banning Trump’s tweets and posts after he went out of power. The same social media platforms are now changing the rules according to Trump’s liking. Twitter had banned Trump’s account. However, understanding the direction of the wind, Elon Musk joined Trump. The same Meta owned platform is also making rules according to Trump. The recent change is that now political content will be promoted on meta owned Instagram and threads.
Changes will be implemented gradually
This change has started from this week. The new change will start from America, while this change will be gradually implemented globally. The political content proposal will come with the default i.e. standard level. Users will have the facility to go to the settings and choose less or more option as per their choice. According to the Wall Street Journal report, this step shows Zuckerberg’s friendly relations with the Trump administration.
There was a ban on Instagram till now
Earlier, Instagram had said that they do not want to make the communication of their platform an angry place, due to which political content will not be shown on Instagram. However, after Trump became President in America, there has been a change in the stand of Meta. The company has announced that it will now give place to hard news on the platform.
Political content will get a boost on Meta
Meta has changed its earlier stand, where earlier Meta had distanced itself from political content to avoid controversies. Now Meta has announced to show political content. This information has been given by Instagram head Adam Mosseri. Meta had banned post suggestions for people following political accounts for almost a year. Meaning, those following the political account did not get updates on sharing the post. However, now political content will be shown to the users.
Problems may increase for X platform
Showing political content on Instagram and threads can increase the trouble for X, because X is a major news source. New agencies and famous personalities, film stars, sports and people from political world are present on this platform, but in the last few years, X platform has lost its credibility because paid verification program has been started on X platform. In such a situation, some fake people got the blue tick by paying money, due to which the credibility of X is under controversy. In such a situation, Elon Musk’s troubles may increase.