In a move to make your News Feed more informative, Facebook has tweaked
its algorithm to bring news that's relevant and of interest to you.
"Our
goal with News Feed is to show people the stories most relevant to
them, so we rank stories so what's most important to each person shows
up highest in their News Feeds," said Facebook in a blog post on Friday.
According
to Jie Xu, Research Scientist, Akos Lada, Data Scientist and Vibhi
Kant, Product Manager at News Feed, when Facebook rank and make
improvements to News Feed, it rely on a set of core values.
"These
values - which we've been using for years - guide our thinking and
help us keep the central experience of News Feed intact as it evolves,"
they wrote.
To better understand how the social media giant can
show people the most informative stories to them, it talks to people and
ask them how it can improve what they see when they check Facebook.
"With
the new update, we are creating a new ranking signal to predict what is
most informative to you, so those stories appear higher in your feed,"
Facebook said.
"First, we look at the stories that people tell us
they find informative. People from our Feed Quality Programme look at
each story in their feed and rank it on a scale of one to five - one
being 'really not informative' and five being 'really informative'," it
added.
The stories people rate as informative and really
informative help create a new prediction about how informative Facebook
thinks hey will find each story.
"We then combine this signal with
how relevant the story might be to you personally a" taking into
account things like your relationship with the person or publisher that
posted, or what you choose to click on, comment on or share a" to best
predict stories that you might personally find informative," the post
read.
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