In the wake of criticism about how its News Feed can be manipulated, Facebook is making some big changes to its flagship feature.
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The company says it plans to give more prominence to status updates and photos shared by users' friends and family members while playing down news articles or anything published by brands.
To read more details about how your news feed is going to look different, click here.
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Publishers believe that this latest move would be a dramatic step in the direction of reducing their presence in the news feed, Digiday reports. Digiday also published an email that Facebook's head of news partnerships Campbell Brown sent to its media partners.
Publishers — many of whom have relied on Facebook to build up huge audiences and achieve viral gold — are bracing themselves for the change. Here are some reactions from media companies.
And here is why Facebook's News Feed shake-up may be a smart move to squeeze more money from publishers. It's a canny commercial move, analysts told Business Insider.
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