Political Social Grab Bag – April 2026

Political Social Grab Bag

What am I reading?

LinkedIn is a Leading Source for AI Answers: Good primer on which domains are getting cited most of often as information sources by AI and as follow up LinkedIn published this guide to using LinkedIn for AI Visibility

Why social search visibility is the next evolution of discoverability: Your must read of the month

Platform Updates

Meta Platforms

Meta: Big changes to some common ad metrics definitions

Facebook: Now you can create a shorter reel of your reel to use as a teaser

Instagram: Content scheduling isn’t limited to just professional dashboard anymore

Instagram: You can now pause reels with just a tap

Instagram: Big change in admin controls- if your account has 3 or more admins, some actions now require approval of 2 admins (this is a good change!)

Instagram:  At long last you can reorder your carousels AFTER publishing!

Other Platforms

LinkedIn will now require that lives be scheduled in advance (tho you can schedule them to start within a few minutes of scheduling them)

Twitter has added an option to block Grok from editing media you upload

Twitter: If you starting using the pro version of paid Twitter so you could keep using TweetDeck well sorry but now it’s part of the Premium subscription tier, not Pro

Don’t Try This At Home

In case you aren’t actually sure if Meta moving to AI content moderation is a bad move….

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