This title is pretty terrible clickbait. Based on the content of the article, they aren’t restricting political speech, they are simply promoting it less or not at all.

As another commenter noted, that’s probably what users want.

Please consider this site’s use of clickbait titles when deciding whether it’s worth your time.

> Meta’s impending amendments will majorly affect how Instagram suggests content, but curiously, they will not tamper with posts by accounts that users are already following. This implies that posts by non-recommendable accounts – including those of political nature such as election news or social issues – will continue to be visible to their followers through various channels like Feed and Stories.

> However, these will not be proactively recommended to users who do not follow the accounts, suppressing the growth of political accounts on the platform.

Uh, this sounds great to me?

Frankly, this sounds like something the vast majority of users want

If the vast majority of users want it, it should work well.

If not, I suppose we'll soon discover what the anglophone equivalent of 习 <-> 小熊維尼 correspondences may be...

(I guess AI moderation could work in this case, in that one only cares about viral-going sidesteps, not any possible sidesteps, reducing the state space vastly. Come to think of it, maybe chinese mods already came to the same conclusion?)