# How to avoid amplifying opposing political content on social media - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117414738279948293 - Source account: [@MauroFdz](https://x.com/MauroFdz) - Source language: Spanish - Target language: English - Duration: 2:28 - Published: 2026-11-03 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/es/c%C3%B3mo-evitar-amplificar-contenido-pol%C3%ADtico-adversario-en-redes-sociales.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media) What should you do with an adversary, or someone whose interests run counter to ours? [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=3) And my position was always: don't reply, don't quote them, don't tag them, and, if possible, block them. [0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=10) My question is: what are the principles you have that could help you give people more tools to, in some way, turn down the noise coming from the other side and amplify their own? [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=20) But I just want to make one correction. Go ahead. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=23) Don't block them. You can't block them. On WhatsApp. [0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=26) Because if— No, on any social media. Because if I block them, the algorithm will understand that I didn't interact with the content, because I— because that person was blocked. So, I can't block them, I have to receive the content and scroll past quickly. [0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=42) Right. Don't look, because then the algorithm— Don't reply. [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=46) Yeah, yeah. No, don't even read it. Oh. Because the, the, the algorithm tracks even the time spent on it. So, if content comes up for me and I, if I spend three seconds looking at the content, Meta will understand that con—e—even if you haven't, haven't, haven't, haven't liked it or given it a like, commented, it'll say, “They [1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=69) read it.” So don't read it, just, just scroll past quickly. [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=73) Then Meta starts to understand: “Look, this content isn't relevant, because people are, people are scrolling past, they aren't reading, they aren't liking, no, no, they aren't commenting.” [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=84) Don't pay it any attention. Yeah, you have to ignore it. That's the way. [1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=88) And when you do that, the content will just, just keep circulating among them, right, it won't reach the undecided. So, only our people would get it. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=99) Seeing that it was no longer possible to reach non-us, Flávio Bolsonaro's voters' opponents started going to our posts. [1:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=110) With no other option, they had to come to the post that spoke well of Lula, to speak ill of him. [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=116) But as I said, the algorithm doesn't understand if you're speaking well or badly, it only understands that you're talking. [2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=122) So the—if the post, uh, was speaking well of Lula, Meta understood: this post is relevant. [2:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=130) And it only delivered content that spoke well of Lula. [2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=133) Another thing we always say you shouldn't do is: if you see a post on Twitter, on X, about something you don't like, the worst thing you can do is take it and send it to a WhatsApp group for people to discuss. [2:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/20QmHJDW3ttW/en/how-to-avoid-amplifying-opposing-political-content-on-social-media?t=144) You're giving it reach. Exactly, exactly.