Facebook announced new changes to the News Feed last night, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing changes to the algorithm, bringing new headaches for those who thought things would calm down. Facebook announced at the beginning of this year that it will change the way news is announced in the News Feed and the pages will be deprioritized, and now we learn that local news will be prioritized instead of those of national interest.
Facebook says that people are more likely to see news from local publications in their area instead of national ones, the company's idea being to bring to people's attention important information around them. This is very easy to put into practice in countries like the USA, where local publications are easier to identify, and Facebook has announced that for now the changes only apply to this country, at the moment.
Facebook believes that people will interact more and more often with news of local interest instead of those of international interest, wanting to see local information more often than international ones. The reality is that, in general, people are interested in learning more about what is happening in their locality, or their country, than what is happening in other countries, and those at Facebook are trying to take advantage of this desire of the users.
Facebook Changes News Feed to Promote Local Content
Facebook also hopes that by promoting local news, people will see less fake news, but this does not guarantee that it will not spread through the media from various locations. I saw this just the other day in Romania with a fake news, but those at Facebook will care too little about it, because they only make changes to make more money, not to offer something good for users, this being the situation all the time.
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Facebook does not know what changes to make to convince people to use its social network, the American company realizing the fact that interest vis-à-vis it has started to decrease. Facebook is also starting to be ignored by young people due to the lack of functions that are really attractive, so in the next period we will see more and more changes of this kind, whether they will be useful for us or not .
Facebook remains the largest social network on the planet, with over 2 billion monthly active users, and this figure is constantly growing, despite the changes made in recent years.
