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Threads is temporarily blocking searches for “covid,” Instagram CEO says.
In response to a post on Threads by The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri says the blocking of “covid” searches is only temporary and that the platform is “working on it:”
I don’t have an ETA to give you unfortunately, but it is temporary and we are working on it. We’re just getting pulled in a lot of directions at once right now. The biggest safety focus right now is managing content responsibly given the war in Israel in Gaza.
Shortly after Threads rolled out its search feature, Lorenz reported that Threads is blocking searches related to “covid” and “long covid.” Mosseri has previously said that Threads is “not going to do anything to encourage” politics or “hard news.”
Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) on Threads
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