Facebook is reportedly testing changes to its algorithm News Feed. Οι δοκιμές ισχύουν αρχικά για τους αγγλόφωνους χρήστες του κοινωνικού δικτύου. Η εταιρεία προσθέτει τρία υπομενού στο μενού του Facebook για τη management όσων εμφανίζονται στο News Feed: φίλοι και οικογένεια, ομάδες και σελίδες και η τρίτη choice they are public figures.
Users in the trial can choose to keep it ratio of these posts in their News Feed to “normal” or change it to more or less, depending on their preferencespriceyou them.
Whoever participates in the tests can do the same for the subjects that appear, identifying things that interest him or he does not prefer to see. In a post on the company's blog, Facebook he says that the trials will affect "a small percentage of people" around the world before gradually expanding in the coming weeks.
Facebook will also expand a tool that allows advertisers to exclude their content from specific topics appearing in users' News Feed, allowing advertising companies not to appear next to "news and politics", "social issues" and "crime" and tragedy ”.
Facebook algorithms are known for promoting incendiary content and dangerous misinformations. So Facebook — and its new parent company Meta — are under increasing regulatory pressure to clean it up platform and make its practices more transparent.
As Congress considers solutions that could give users more control over what they see and eliminate some of the opacity around algorithmic content, Facebook hopes there's still room for some self-regulation of its own.
Last month before Congress, the former Facebook employee Frances Hagen leaked the ways in which Facebook's opaque algorithms can prove dangerous.
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