A Facebook logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration. ( Image source: Reuters)The world’s biggest social media company, Facebook, will temporarily reduce political content for users in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia starting this week. The platform would take similar steps in the United States “in the coming weeks,” according to a blog post on Wednesday. “One common piece of feedback we hear,” Wednesday’s blog post began, “is that people don’t want political content to take over their News Feed.”“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 post continued. In the past, the social network has resisted algorithm changes which would reduce misleading and divisive content, as such changes would reduce their platform’s overall use.

Source: Indian Express February 11, 2021 08:37 UTC