How to Hide Political Content on Twitter/X (2026)

To hide political content on Twitter/X: open Settings → Privacy and safety → Mute and block → Muted words and add political keywords, names, and hashtags set to Forever / Home timeline. Switch to the Following tab to remove algorithmically injected political content from accounts you don't follow. Mute the accounts in your network that post politics most frequently — silent, reversible, no notification sent. For complete feed removal, install News Feed Eradicator.

Last verified: May 31, 2026 · Reading time: 5 min · Difficulty: Easy

Why Twitter/X is the best platform for this

Twitter/X has native keyword muting — a feature Facebook and LinkedIn don’t meaningfully offer. You can hide any word or phrase from your Home timeline permanently, in about 30 seconds per keyword. Most people have never opened this setting.

Here’s the complete setup.

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Step 1: Muted Words — the most important setting

This is Twitter/X’s native keyword filter. Open it:

Settings → Privacy and safety → Mute and block → Muted words → +

For each keyword:

• Duration: Forever
• From: Anyone (or “People you don’t follow” if you want to preserve political posts from people you know)
• Home timeline: checked ✓

Keyword categories to add:

Political figures — add the names of the politicians who appear in your feed most. First name + last name as separate entries catches more variants.

Hashtags — #MAGA, #resist, #GOP, #Democrats, #Republican, #Labour, #Tory, #BJP, or whatever applies to your feed.

News-style language — BREAKING:, Just in:, Thread 🧵 (if political threads dominate), Opinion:.

Specific topics — election, impeach, indictment, Supreme Court — add whatever terms you consistently don’t want in your timeline.

Build the list over time. Every time a political term gets through, add it. The list compounds.

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Step 2: Switch to Following

The Following tab is Twitter/X’s secret weapon for political content control.

Tap “Following” at the top of your home screen.

You now see only accounts you explicitly follow, in reverse chronological order. No algorithm, no “you might like,” no political content from accounts you don’t follow. Political injection from strangers disappears entirely.

The limitation: Twitter/X defaults back to For You when you reopen the app on mobile. You have to tap Following each time. On desktop, it persists per browser session.

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Step 3: Mute the political posters you do follow

For people in your network who post political content regularly:

··· on any tweet → Mute @username

Silent. No notification. Their posts disappear from your timeline. You can see their profile directly and reverse the mute at any time.

This is the right tool for friends, family, or colleagues whose non-political content you want to keep but whose political posts you don’t.

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Method: Remove the feed entirely

If muting keywords and switching to Following still leaves political content — or if you find yourself scrolling the For You feed by reflex — News Feed Eradicator removes the Home timeline completely.

DMs, notifications, search, lists, and profiles all continue to work. The algorithmic scroll — and all the political content it delivers — disappears.

Install News Feed Eradicator — free, Chrome and Firefox.

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What to do next

1. Open Muted Words right now. Add 10 political keywords in 5 minutes.
2. Switch to the Following tab and use Twitter that way for one week.
3. Mute the 3–5 people you follow who post politics most frequently.
4. If the feed is still a problem, install News Feed Eradicator.

Related guides

• How to control your Twitter/X feed — the full playbook.
• How to filter Elon Musk posts on Twitter/X — the most requested specific filter.
• How to use the Following tab instead of For You — escaping the algorithm completely.
• How to hide political posts on Facebook — same problem, different platform.