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Threads’ Trends Dominated by Politically Distant Topic

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Meta’s newest app Threads, a would-be Twitter/X rival, may not want politics on its platform, but it’s coming to the app anyway — or so Threads’ search trends indicate. And with the expansion, it seems the topics that Threads users are talking the most are, in fact, political in nature. In 2016, the company made a change to Facebook’s Feed, to prioritize posts from family and friends over news. Creators who post about laws and legislation, elections or other political and social issues, were not happy about this change. But there’s one area where Threads isn’t (yet) suppressing politics, and that’s in its Trends feature.