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“#Facebook<\/a> rolls out news<\/a> feeds with less politics<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Facebook said Wednesday it began rolling out news feeds with less political subject matter in line with a plan outlined by chief Mark Zuckerberg to reduce inflammatory content.<\/p>\n

The leading social network said it would begin testing the change “for a small percentage of people” in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, and the United States in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n

“During these initial tests we’ll explore a variety of ways to rank political content in people’s feeds using different signals, and then decide on the app<\/a>roaches we’ll use going forward,” product management director Aastha Gupta said.<\/p>\n

The change won’t affect information about the Covid-19 pandemic and content from global health organizations or from official government agencies.<\/p>\n

“As Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on our recent earnings call, one common piece of feedback we hear is that people don’t want political content to take over their News Feed,” Gupta said.<\/p>\n

“Over the next few months, we’ll work to better understand peoples’ varied preferences for political content and test a number of approaches based on those insights.”<\/p>\n

The move comes with Facebook and other platforms under fire for enabling political misinformation and manipulation, notably during election periods.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg said last month Facebook is seeking to “turn down the temperature” on its sprawling platform by reducing the kind of divisive and inflammatory political talk it has long hosted.<\/p>\n

He said the social media giant will no longer recommend politics-themed groups to users and was working on ways to reduce the amount of political content served up in users’ news feeds by its automated systems.<\/p>\n

“We’re still going to enable people to engage in political groups and discussions if they want to,” Zuckerberg said last month.\n <\/p>\n\n

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