Facebook rolls out new shopping features, including Shops in Groups, product recommendations in the News Feed, and a test of Live Shopping for Creators
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch :
Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content
Source: Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content
Facebook plans to announce that it will de-emphasize political posts and current events content in the News Feed based on negative user feedback, Axios has learned.
Facebook's new report reinforces its narrative that most content on the News Feed is not news, but doesn't provide enough data to make meaningful conclusions
Ethan Zuckerman :
Facebook's new report reinforces its narrative that most content on the News Feed is not news, but doesn't provide enough data to make meaningful conclusions
What content is popular on Facebook? — This is a surprisingly difficult - and very important - question to answer.
Facebook's interest in newsletters stems from its shift in product development to focus on private messaging and Groups, not the News Feed
Hint: it's all about Groups. PLUS: Substack fumbles — Today let's talk about platforms' growing interest in building newsletter tools …
Facebook says it will pin a voter registration information box at the top of the News Feed for every US user of voting age starting July 3
Jay Peters / The Verge : Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg : Tomorrow we're kicking off a July 4th voter registration drive …
Facebook is internally testing a tabbed version of News Feed for mobile that includes the Most Relevant, Most Recent, and Already Seen feeds
Facebook may make it easier to escape its ranking algorithm and explore the News Feed in different formats. Facebook has internally prototyped …
Book excerpt from Steven Levy's Facebook: The Inside Story, with a look at Zuckerberg's lost handwritten journal, in which he noted plans for world domination
In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. Tweets: @stevenlevy , @stevenlevy , @stevenlevy , and @stevenlevy Tweets: Steven Le...
Wikimedia says Facebook, which uses Wikipedia content to provide information on article sources in the News Feed, has donated $1M to the Wikimedia Endowment
Kaitlin Thaney / Wikimedia Foundation :