5 X Settings to Filter Your Feed (Stop the Ragebait)

Muted Words is X’s strongest proactive feed filter. It removes posts containing matching text before they appear, preventing any reaction to those posts from becoming new training data.

To set it up, go to More → Settings and Privacy → Privacy and Safety → Mute and Block → Muted Words. Tap the plus icon to add a term. You can set each entry for 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or forever.

The most important option is scope. Setting it to "From people you don’t follow" ensures that accounts you chose to follow can still discuss a topic, while strangers cannot flood your feed with it. You can mute words, phrases, hashtags, emojis, and specific usernames, and each entry gets its own independent duration and scope.

A muted hashtag such as #politics catches only posts that include the hashtag. Muting the bare word politics catches any post containing the word. Add both if you want broader coverage.

The filter reads text. Images without captions and videos without readable on-screen text can still get through, and interacting with them will continue to shape your recommendations. A desktop browser is usually faster for building a long list.

When one account is spoiling your feed, Mute is usually the right control. X changed blocking for public accounts in late 2024. A blocked user can still view public posts but cannot like, reply, or repost them. Blocking continues to work as before on private accounts.

Muting an account removes its content from your feed entirely and the account is never notified. To mute someone, visit their profile, tap the three-dot menu in the upper right, and select Mute.

Use Mute to clean up the feed. Blocking still has a separate role when you need to restrict interaction.

Muted Words and Muted Accounts work before unwanted content appears. Not Interested and Show Less Often give X feedback after a post has already reached your feed.

Tapping the three dots on any For You post reveals both options. Not Interested signals that you do not want that content type. Show Less Often reduces the frequency of posts from that specific account without fully muting it.

Expect gradual results. X weighs one dismissal alongside the engagement a post receives from other users, so a post with 50,000 quote-tweets may keep circulating. These buttons work best as a supplement to Muted Words.

X has a toggle that controls whether violence, sexual content, and graphic material appear in your feed, but it is hidden behind a platform restriction most users never encounter. Apple’s App Store policies prevent the toggle from appearing in the iOS app, and X keeps Android consistent with iOS. The setting only exists on the web.

To access it, log in at x.com (desktop or mobile browser) and navigate to Settings → Privacy and Safety → Content You See. Changes made on the web sync to the app after a restart.

This filter applies only to material X has categorized as sensitive. It does not cover ragebait, political content, or spam. Its absence from the native apps follows platform-level policies outside X’s control.

The Following tab limits the feed to accounts you selected and removes the engagement-based ranking used in For You.

At the top of your feed, tap Following. By default the tab opens to Popular, which still applies some algorithmic sorting. To get a true chronological feed, tap the dropdown and switch to Recent.

Following on Recent avoids the engagement-based ranking used in For You. You can return to For You when you want discovery and use Following as the more predictable day-to-day feed.