No real off switch
Google News has no per-topic block, only a ranking hint that decays.
"Show fewer" on a Google News topic is a signal the algorithm weighs, not a rule it has to follow. Muuted mutes it as a rule instead: gone from every source you follow, reviewable any time, back in one tap if you change your mind.
Mutes candidates, campaigns and Congress across every source in your feed — not just Google News.
Tap "Show fewer" on an election story and you have sent a preference signal, not written a rule. The ranking algorithm weighs it against everything else it thinks you want, and the algorithm keeps the final vote — so the same churn resurfaces within a few refreshes.
Google News has no per-topic block, only a ranking hint that decays.
Even a working filter on one app rarely reaches the other places political news finds you.
No list of what was hidden, so there is no way to check the filter is actually working.
Muuted's Politics detox pack is a one-tap starting point — the campaign-and-Congress vocabulary muted as a rule, applied across every source you follow the moment you turn it on. Add your outlets by RSS, or bring a Google News topic straight in by pasting its link.
Sick of the campaign churn, the hot takes, the outrage cycle? One tap hides every headline that names the election machine — candidates, campaigns, Congress — so your feed is the news you actually came for.
Turn on the Politics pack →Same publications, same publish order — just without the campaign noise. Nothing resurfaces to re-provoke you, and nothing is silently gone: every muted story stays one tap from coming back. Want other topics gone too? See the full guide to muting any topic or the rest of the one-tap detox packs.
Everything else you follow arrives exactly as before.
Every mute is reversible in one tap, any time.
Muted stories are reviewable, never silently deleted.
Not for good. Google News lets you tap "Show fewer" on a topic, but that's a signal to the ranking algorithm, not a rule — the algorithm keeps the final vote and political stories come back. There is no permanent block.
Only if you want to. Muuted works alongside whatever you already follow — you add the outlets you actually read by RSS, or by pasting a Google News topic link, and mute politics once across all of them.
The Politics detox pack mutes the campaign-and-Congress vocabulary — candidates, campaigns, elections, the legislative fights — across every source in your feed, not source by source. You can always see what it caught and bring any story back in one tap.
Yes. Muuted's free plan includes 10 muted words or topics, no ads, and the one-tap detox packs, including Politics.
Free to start — 10 muted words or topics, no ads, one-tap detox packs.