{"id":39403,"date":"2021-08-31T14:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39403"},"modified":"2021-09-01T14:12:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T21:12:42","slug":"facebook-to-feed-off-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39403","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to feed off feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will weigh negative user feedback to reduce political content in the platform\u2019s News Feed, the company said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The announcement is part of Facebook\u2019s updates to its previously announced plan to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mdcsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqbqcdy_mdtcnnyqylcdywttbwnt.html?a=&amp;b=41907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mdcsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqbqcdy_mdtcnnyqylcdywttbwnt.html?a%3D%26b%3D41907&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630533606900000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZdjZomxUSn_iMOI4bLOgO-sWerQ\">cut down on political content<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Since initiating the effort in February, Facebook has learned that \u201csome engagement signals\u201d are better at indicating what posts users find valuable, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/skjlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrsrbkc_mdtcnnyqylcdywttbwnt.html?a=&amp;b=41907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/skjlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbrsrbkc_mdtcnnyqylcdywttbwnt.html?a%3D%26b%3D41907&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630533606900000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE67oJPnrxx00kvLjzlgpwONPXh0w\">Tuesday update<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Based on what the platform has learned, Facebook will be \u201cputting more emphasis\u201d on signals such as how likely users are to provide negative feedback on posts about political topics and current events when ranking those types of posts in their News Feed, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will weigh negative user feedback&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39404,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39403\/revisions\/39404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}