The claim that instagram fact-checks all political posts automatically isn’t really true. Although Instagram does have a fact-checking system, it is only to review some posts through outside organizations, but not every single one. From what I know, political posts made by politicians are usually not fact-checked ever. According to PolitiFact, Meta who owns Instagram, has recently confirmed that political content and speech from politicians are often exempt from the third-party-checking, which is the system used for Instagram’s fact-checking. The reason behind this is the policy that is to avoid interfering with political expression, which also means a lot of political can still be spread without being labeled or reviewed for accuracy.
Recently, Meta even started moving away from its full fact-checking program. In early 2025, the company announced their plans to end the third-party fact-checking partnerships in the U.S. with plans to switch to a “community notes” model, where users can help ass context to posts instead of relying on automatic checks. Overall Instagram has focused more on limiting how often political posts appear in recommendations rather than reviewing the truthfulness in every post. The claim makes it sound like Instagram checks all political posts automatically, when fact-checking only ever happens sometimes and political posts are the ones not reviewed at all.
