Tech Giant Facebook Adjusts Its News Feed- Checkout The New Features 

Facebook is adding features to users’ main news feed, including letting them limit comment on their public posts to friends or even specific tagged people.

Facebook will also make it easier to revert to “chronological” mode, with the latest posts displayed first.

The company abandoned this model in 2009, although the option remained buried in a menu, in favor of using algorithms to rank the content shown.

But on Wednesday, vice-president Nick Clegg said a lack of transparency and information available to users had led to mistrust.

And so Facebook has moved its “most recent” option to a new “feed filter bar”, at the top of the news feed, which also allows users to prioritize posts from up to 30 friends or particular pages, a feature introduced in October last year, before reverting to algorithmic content ranking.

Despite the change, Mr Clegg, the former Deputy Prime Minister, said Facebook’s algorithmic content ranking – and personalized advertising – continued to offer “so many benefits to society”.

Read also:

• Russia Registers ‘World’s First’ COVID-19 Vaccine For Animals
• Makerere University Speaks Out On Scrapping Off 18 Courses
• Germany Suspends Use Of AstraZeneca Vaccines For People Under 60 Years
• UCC Vows To Close 30 Radio Stations Over Non-Compliance

• Full List: Ministry Of Health Unveils Approved Covid-19 vaccination Centers Country Wide 

Comparing its use of algorithms to a romantic couple in which one does the shopping and the other cooks dinner, he said: “Content ranking is a dynamic partnership between people and algorithms.

“Your news feed is shaped heavily by your choices and actions.”

In a further bid for transparency, the news feed’s “Why am I seeing this?” links will now detail the criteria for recommended posts – from people and organizations, users do not follow such as having recently interacted with a similar post.

The new controls would be available for Android app users first, Facebook said, with an iOS update for Apple phones in the coming weeks.