If you were on social media this past weekend, you might have seen some users who were really upset over a new policy.

Instagram decided to remind us just how much they suck with their latest update.

Now, the new default setting will limit the political content you might otherwise seek.

Meta is literally censoring political topics

off of Instagram and Facebook.

This comes just a couple weeks

after the House passed a bill that

aims to ban Tik-Toc if the company doesn't change owners.

Foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party pose the greatest national threat of our time.

It seems like everyone, or at least everyone's mom, wants to rein in the power of social media.

They're worried about their data being stolen,

or the election being influenced by propaganda,

or about their kids' brains being fried.

Jay Kaspian Kang, a staff writer at the New Yorker, shares some of those concerns.

But at the same time, he believes that access to social media is a First Amendment right,

even if we're accessing it way too much.

I think that the structure of the internet of all social media is to argue about politics,

and I think that is baked into it, and I don't think you can ever fix it.

You're listening to the political scene. I'm Tyler Foggett and I'm a senior editor

at the New Yorker. In your latest column you wrote that we should resist a society in which every human

interaction gets processed through an algorithm and broadcast out to a frequently nasty public.

I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about what this resistance to social media has looked like over the years and how it has evolved.

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