Political or social-issue content (viewer controls)
Instagram may show the video to fewer people.
About to post? A full check of your video looks for this in what's said, the words on screen, the caption and the hashtags, with a plain fix.
Check a video freeWhat triggers it
Content about governments, elections, laws or social topics. Meta may now recommend it to non-followers based on personalized signals, but viewers who set their Political Content control to see less will not be shown it.
What Instagram says
“We may recommend political content from accounts people don’t already follow based on personalized signals.”
How to fix it
No change required. If broad reach matters more than the political angle, keep the topic non-political.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's said, the words on screen, the caption and the hashtags. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: not for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: looked at for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: looked at for this rule
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