Facebook shifts News Feed, gives priority to friends

April 22, 2015 08:11

Facebook has said it was reconfiguring its News Feed, in a move aimed at giving people more information about what is happening to "the friends you care about." The world's biggest social network yesterday unveiled changes which decrease reliance on "referral" traffic - or the sharing of news articles or other content.

"The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you," said a blog post by Facebook's Max Eulenstein and Lauren Scissors.

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