LOS ANGELES — Instagram’s text-based social platform Threads last week rolled out its new search function, a crucial step toward the platform’s expansion and one that would give it more parity with X, formerly known as Twitter. “The whole reason we know about long covid in the first place is because people with long covid took to social media and started talking about their experiences,” Lowenstein said, noting that the term “long covid” itself was coined by a Twitter user before being adopted by the CDC, the World Health Organization and other health organizations. ”Blocking certain words from search outright is also ultimately ineffective, Farid said, because users will quickly develop euphemisms and turns of phrase to get around them