Facebook has announced that updates are coming to promote local news feeds to News Feed users, which will provide more reliable information as they can cross-check locally.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said that if a user follows a local publisher or if someone shares a local story, it will appear higher in the news stream.
The local newsletter kicked off on Sunday, Facebok said and will be expanding to more countries this year.
“When I traveled to the country last year, one theme "What people have told me is that we all have a lot in common if we can get past some of the most divisive national issues," Zuckerberg said on Facebook.
"A lot of people have told me that if we could tone down the issues that divide us and focus on specific local issues, then we would have made more progress together."
Facebook said there are no restrictions from a geographical area to eligible publishers. This will not only benefit large local publishers, but also small pages covering sporting, artistic and social stories.
Η movement of Facebook to prioritize local news follows changes to the News Feed that earlier this month to reduce the amount of misleading content and fake news on the larger social network in the world.
Facebook has begun to prioritize friends' publications and high-quality news sources, saying it expects to reduce the news feed in News Feed.
"This is the beginning of our efforts to prioritize high quality news. "This update may not target all small or specialized publishers first, but we will try to improve accuracy and coverage over time." post on his blog.
"All our work to reduce false news, misinformation, clickbait, impression and invalid accounts are still being made. ”
Facebook is reportedly also testing a special news section called Today In and showing news and information to its community.
