Facebook to ‘rank political content’ in effort to de-politicize platform

Published February 10, 2021 11:01pm ET



Tech giant Facebook revealed it will “explore” ways to reduce political content on people’s news feeds.

“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,” the social media company wrote in a Wednesday blog post. “As a first step, we’ll temporarily reduce the distribution of political content in News Feed for a small percentage of people in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, and the US in the coming weeks.”

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