Starting today, Facebook’s News Feed will serve up more local news for users in the United States. The change may roll out to other countries later this year.
Plans to surface more local content were first announced a little over a week ago, when Facebook announced it may also place a premium on news outlets deemed informative or trustworthy by Facebook users, though a survey to determine the answer is only two questions long.Today’s news is the latest in an initiative undertaken by the social media giant throughout the first month of 2018 to reshape its News Feed to serve up more posts from friends and family and fewer posts from things like public Facebook pages or news outlets.
“We identify local publishers as those…
The post Facebook’s News Feed now includes more local stories appeared first on FeedBox.