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Facebook Overhauls News Feed in Favor of 'Meaningful Social Interactions' (theguardian.com)
Facebook said late Thursday it will begin to prioritize posts in the News Feed from friends and family over public content and posts from publishers. The company will also move away from using "time spent" on the platform as a metric of success and will instead focus on "engagement" with content, such as comments. From a report: The social media platform will de-prioritize videos, photos, and posts shared by businesses and media outlets, which Zuckerberg dubbed "public content," in favor of content produced by a user's friends and family. "The balance of what's in News Feed has shifted away from the most important thing Facebook can do -- help us connect with each other," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing the change. "We feel a responsibility to make sure our services aren't just fun to use, but also good for people's well-being."
I suggest you take anything the WaPo publishes with a grain of salt as big as that needed for Alex Jones's lies. Their vendetta against Trump has resulted in their getting caught again and again and again in printing flat out lies hidden under the claim of anonymous sources.
I don't trust Jones but neither do I trust anything from the WaPo. It used to be a respectable newspaper, now it's a tabloid.