After rolling out the trending subjects characteristic within the U.S. earlier this 12 months, Threads is now testing out the characteristic in Japan.
“Lots of folks outside the US have been asking for the “Trending Now” characteristic, and we’re engaged on bringing it to extra international locations. This week, we’ll start testing the characteristic in Japan with a small variety of folks to start out,” mentioned Adam Mosseri, the Meta government who heads Instagram and Threads.
Meta says the Trending Now characteristic highlights conversations taking place in real-time, however hasn’t specified if it filters out political subjects on this part.
While the social community says it doesn’t actively suggest political content material, the characteristic usually surfaces political subjects as a result of nature of conversations on the platform.
