{"id":1164,"date":"2021-11-23T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/facebook-tests-giving-more-control-of-news-feed-content-to-users-again-the-verge\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:28:00","slug":"facebook-tests-giving-more-control-of-news-feed-content-to-users-again-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/facebook-tests-giving-more-control-of-news-feed-content-to-users-again-the-verge\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook tests giving more control of News Feed content to users again &#8211; The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Filed under:<br \/>It\u2019s been tweaking that News Feed algorithm for years<br \/>Facebook parent company Meta said it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/business\/news\/introducing-more-control-for-brands-and-people-in-feed\">is testing new ways<\/a> for users to customize the content they see in their News Feeds. The company said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/business\/news\/introducing-more-control-for-brands-and-people-in-feed\">blog<\/a> post Thursday that the test, available to a \u201csmall percentage\u201d of users to start, would allow people to adjust their preferences to increase or reduce the amount of content they see from specific friends, family, groups, and pages they\u2019re connected with on the platform. <br \/>Facebook has tweaked the way the News Feed presents content numerous times in the past several years and seems to keep rethinking what content should be prioritized and why. In 2015, it said it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/4\/21\/8463051\/facebook-algorithm-changes-publishers-newsfeed\">changing News Feeds<\/a> to favor content from close friends over that from brands and publishers. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/29\/12055124\/facebook-news-feed-algorithm-changes\">2016, Facebook said again<\/a> it would adjust its algorithm so posts from friends would get priority over publishers. Then in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/1\/11\/16881102\/facebook-news-feed-changes-meaningful-interactions\">2018, the company said it was changing the News Feed<\/a> so posts that might spark \u201cback and forth discussion\u201d (aka engagement, which is Facebook\u2019s bread-and-butter) would be more likely to appear than more passive content.<br \/>Guess what Facebook did in 2020? Well, a few things, but also it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/11\/24\/21612728\/facebook-news-feed-us-election-change-mainstream-news-misinformation\">tweaked the News Feed yet again<\/a>, this time to favor more trustworthy and quality news sources. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/12\/17\/22180259\/facebook-news-feed-change-post-election-publishers-misinformation\">rolled back that \u201cnicer\u201d version<\/a> of the News Feed in December 2020 to the reported chagrin of some Facebook employees.<br \/>How the social media giant controls its News Feed has largely been a mystery, but Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.fb.com\/en-gb\/features\/approach-to-ranking\/types-of-content-we-demote\/\">released a report in September<\/a> it said would give the public some insights into how it decides what content it suppresses, or \u201cdemotes\u201d \u2014 like clickbait and posts from those who repeatedly violate its rules.<br \/>     Related   <br \/>But now users in the new test will be able to turn down the volume on friends, family, pages, and groups in their News Feeds if they prefer. Meta said in the blog post that this was \u201cpart of our ongoing work to give people more control over News Feed, so they see more of what they want and less of what they don\u2019t.\u201d Sounds great! Again!<br \/>Facebook is also going to make changes to news controls for its business customers, expanding the \u201ctopic exclusion\u201d controls to a test group of advertisers that run ads in English. The advertisers can select from three topic groups \u2014 news and politics, social issues, and crime and tragedy\u2014 so that they can prevent their ads from appearing near posts about those topics if they prefer. <br \/>Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week.<br \/>Please confirm your subscription to Verge Deals via the verification email we just sent you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/11\/18\/22789969\/facebook-tests-control-news-feed-algorithm-preferences\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under:It\u2019s been tweaking that News Feed algorithm for yearsFacebook parent company Meta said it is testing new ways for users to customize the content they see in their News Feeds. The company said in a blog post Thursday that the test, available to a \u201csmall percentage\u201d of users to start, would allow people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}